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The charts are based on 2.1 TB of data collected from 4207 instances uploaded by 323 Spotlight users over an 8 week period.

HADR_AR_CRITICAL_SECTION_ENTRY

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

What is HADR_AR_CRITICAL_SECTION_ENTRY?

1 Answer

 

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

Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

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

Prevalence of HADR_AR_CRITICAL_SECTION_ENTRY across the Spotlight Population

For 49 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 24 ms

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

71 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of HADR_AR_CRITICAL_SECTION_ENTRY across the Spotlight Population