Provide statistics about abuse filters (Community Wishlist/W379)

Description

Gathering statistical data about abuse filter efficiency and performance is currently difficult.

Profiling data, which aggregate average run time and other information about filter performance, are scattered over dozens or hundreds of individual filter pages, with no central overview.
Profiling data could include other statistics, like the highest amount of time needed by a filter.
There is no indication of when a filter was last triggered. This would be useful for discovering broken or obsolete filters. Currently, it can be inferred only by examining the abuse log per filter, one by one.
Users lost the ability to query the abuse log in the database replicas due to sensitivity of the data. What a database query could provide in a second now can be done only by querying API (e.g., using a script). This has disadvantages, such as the need for running a script with elevated permissions and potentially higher consumption of resources on the server side.

As a solution, provide a new interface exposing existing and other useful statistical data to filter maintainers.

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Type of wish

Feature request

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admins, patrollers

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Support Pppery (talk) 15:51, 10 October 2025