# Troubleshooting a SQL Server read replica problem
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You can monitor replication lag in Amazon CloudWatch by viewing the Amazon RDS `ReplicaLag` metric. For information about replication lag time, see [Monitoring read replication](USER_ReadRepl.Monitoring.md).

If replication lag is too long, you can use the following query to get information about the lag.

```
SELECT AR.replica_server_name
     , DB_NAME (ARS.database_id) 'database_name'
     , AR.availability_mode_desc
     , ARS.synchronization_health_desc
     , ARS.last_hardened_lsn
     , ARS.last_redone_lsn
     , ARS.secondary_lag_seconds
FROM sys.dm_hadr_database_replica_states ARS
INNER JOIN sys.availability_replicas AR ON ARS.replica_id = AR.replica_id
--WHERE DB_NAME(ARS.database_id) = 'database_name'
ORDER BY AR.replica_server_name;
```