diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 9129f79bbf..1e2f81d994 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -1479,6 +1479,10 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
          <entry><literal>SyncRep</literal></entry>
          <entry>Waiting for confirmation from remote server during synchronous replication.</entry>
         </row>
+        <row>
+         <entry><literal>BackupWaitWalArchive</literal></entry>
+         <entry>Waiting for WAL files required for the backup to be successfully archived.</entry>
+        </row>
         <row>
          <entry morerows="2"><literal>Timeout</literal></entry>
          <entry><literal>BaseBackupThrottle</literal></entry>
diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
index 3813eadfb4..d79417b443 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
@@ -11095,6 +11095,7 @@ do_pg_stop_backup(char *labelfile, bool waitforarchive, TimeLineID *stoptli_p)
 		seconds_before_warning = 60;
 		waits = 0;
 
+		pgstat_report_wait_start(WAIT_EVENT_BACKUP_WAIT_WAL_ARCHIVE);
 		while (XLogArchiveIsBusy(lastxlogfilename) ||
 			   XLogArchiveIsBusy(histfilename))
 		{
@@ -11120,6 +11121,7 @@ do_pg_stop_backup(char *labelfile, bool waitforarchive, TimeLineID *stoptli_p)
 								 "but the database backup will not be usable without all the WAL segments.")));
 			}
 		}
+		pgstat_report_wait_end();
 
 		ereport(NOTICE,
 				(errmsg("all required WAL segments have been archived")));
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c b/src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c
index 7169509a79..6114ab44ee 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c
@@ -3848,6 +3848,9 @@ pgstat_get_wait_ipc(WaitEventIPC w)
 		case WAIT_EVENT_SYNC_REP:
 			event_name = "SyncRep";
 			break;
+		case WAIT_EVENT_BACKUP_WAIT_WAL_ARCHIVE:
+			event_name = "BackupWaitWalArchive";
+			break;
 			/* no default case, so that compiler will warn */
 	}
 
diff --git a/src/include/pgstat.h b/src/include/pgstat.h
index aecb6013f0..7c40ebc3dc 100644
--- a/src/include/pgstat.h
+++ b/src/include/pgstat.h
@@ -853,7 +853,8 @@ typedef enum
 	WAIT_EVENT_REPLICATION_ORIGIN_DROP,
 	WAIT_EVENT_REPLICATION_SLOT_DROP,
 	WAIT_EVENT_SAFE_SNAPSHOT,
-	WAIT_EVENT_SYNC_REP
+	WAIT_EVENT_SYNC_REP,
+	WAIT_EVENT_BACKUP_WAIT_WAL_ARCHIVE
 } WaitEventIPC;
 
 /* ----------