Waiting to get the lock on the timer task object and is also used for the actual waits between times that work is being performed. For example, for a task that runs every 10 seconds, after one execution, AlwaysOn Availability Groups waits about 10 seconds to reschedule the task, and the wait is included here. Information from Microsoft®
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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_TIMER_TASK
Category: Idle
SQL Server versions: 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
This is an idle wait and so it can be safely ignored.
What is HADR_TIMER_TASK?
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answered 3348 days ago
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This wait never occurs for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked HADR_TIMER_TASK on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of HADR_TIMER_TASK across the Spotlight Population
For 43 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is around 490 ms
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a HADR_TIMER_TASK wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
164 instances contributed data to this chart