A client paged me at 6am because their reporting dashboards were timing out. Nothing was down. The primary replica in their Always On AG was just getting hammered by every single read query in the environment, while two perfectly healthy secondary replicas sat there doing nothing but redo.

Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/arvind_toorpu/your-ag-secondaries-arent-load-balancing-because-you-skipped-one-step-3bda)

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