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Troubleshooting HADR_SYNC_COMMIT Waits

Jose Manuel Jurado Diaz reviews a wait stat:

Today, I worked on a service request that our customer faced a performance issue in their business critical service tier database. Their main suspect was that the syncronization with the secondary replica has a delay. 

During their troubleshooting process they found that they got many request with the wait type is HADR_SYNC_COMMIT.

Read on to learn more about this wait, including what can cause it. There’s also a bit of information about it in the SQLskills wait state compendium.