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HADR_AG_MUTEX

Category: Other
SQL Server versions: 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017

What is HADR_AG_MUTEX?

2 Answers

 

this wait type can also occur when an AlwaysOn DDL statement or Windows Server Failover Clustering command is waiting for exclusive read/write access to the configuration of an availability group

 

Occurs when an AlwaysOn DDL statement or Windows Server Failover Clustering command is waiting for exclusive read/write access to the configuration of an availability group. Information from Microsoft®

Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

For each of 4207 instances, we ranked HADR_AG_MUTEX on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.

Prevalence of HADR_AG_MUTEX across the Spotlight Population

For 78 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 0.62 ms

For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a HADR_AG_MUTEX wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.

409 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of HADR_AG_MUTEX across the Spotlight Population