diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 77e9ff435..6802a7175 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -106,3 +106,9 @@ template = Liquid::Template.parse("{{x}} {{y}}")
 template.render!({ 'x' => 1}, { strict_variables: true })
 #=> Liquid::UndefinedVariable: Liquid error: undefined variable y
 ```
+
+### Usage tracking
+
+To help track usages of a feature or code path in production, we have released opt-in usage tracking. To enable this, we provide an empty `Liquid:: Usage.increment` method which you can customize to your needs. The feature is well suited to https://github.com/Shopify/statsd-instrument. However, the choice of implementation is up to you.
+
+Once you have enabled usage tracking, we recommend reporting any events through Github Issues that your system may be logging. It is highly likely this event has been added to consider deprecating or improving code specific to this event, so please raise any concerns.
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diff --git a/lib/liquid.rb b/lib/liquid.rb
index 0e198bb48..b98d4d960 100644
--- a/lib/liquid.rb
+++ b/lib/liquid.rb
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ module Liquid
 require 'liquid/tokenizer'
 require 'liquid/parse_context'
 require 'liquid/partial_cache'
+require 'liquid/usage'
 
 # Load all the tags of the standard library
 #
diff --git a/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb b/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb
index b13d089cb..45cf3a059 100644
--- a/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb
+++ b/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb
@@ -421,6 +421,7 @@ def at_most(input, n)
 
     def default(input, default_value = ''.freeze)
       if !input || input.respond_to?(:empty?) && input.empty?
+        Usage.increment("default_filter_received_false_value") if input == false # See https://github.com/Shopify/liquid/issues/1127
         default_value
       else
         input
diff --git a/lib/liquid/usage.rb b/lib/liquid/usage.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e3267ebe3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/liquid/usage.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+module Liquid
+  module Usage
+    def self.increment(name)
+    end
+  end
+end