Note: This feature requires Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise. Spotlight on SQL Server Replication is available for SQL Server 2005 and later.
Latency is the amount of time that elapses between a command being committed at the Publisher and the corresponding command being committed at the Subscriber. It is a key measure of the performance of your replication environment, especially when data must be available at subscribers within a certain time period to meet service level agreements.
The Replication - Latency alarms are:
When a latency alarm occurs you should look at the Agents grid on the Agents page of the Activity drilldown to see which agent is experiencing high latency times.
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