diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 3173ec2566..13c7e991d0 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -1569,7 +1569,12 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       <entry>Waiting for subplan nodes of an <literal>Append</literal> plan
        node to be ready.</entry>
      </row>
-    <row>
+     <row>
+      <entry><literal>ArchiveCommand</literal></entry>
+      <entry>Waiting for <xref linkend="guc-archive-command"/> to
+       complete.</entry>
+     </row>
+     <row>
       <entry><literal>BackendTermination</literal></entry>
       <entry>Waiting for the termination of another backend.</entry>
      </row>
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/pgarch.c b/src/backend/postmaster/pgarch.c
index 74a7d7c4d0..2201f069ea 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/pgarch.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/pgarch.c
@@ -515,7 +515,10 @@ pgarch_archiveXlog(char *xlog)
 	snprintf(activitymsg, sizeof(activitymsg), "archiving %s", xlog);
 	set_ps_display(activitymsg);
 
+	pgstat_report_wait_start(WAIT_EVENT_ARCHIVE_COMMAND);
 	rc = system(xlogarchcmd);
+	pgstat_report_wait_end();
+
 	if (rc != 0)
 	{
 		/*
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/activity/wait_event.c b/src/backend/utils/activity/wait_event.c
index 4a5b7502f5..d8e3688ab5 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/activity/wait_event.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/activity/wait_event.c
@@ -313,6 +313,9 @@ pgstat_get_wait_ipc(WaitEventIPC w)
 		case WAIT_EVENT_APPEND_READY:
 			event_name = "AppendReady";
 			break;
+		case WAIT_EVENT_ARCHIVE_COMMAND:
+			event_name = "ArchiveCommand";
+			break;
 		case WAIT_EVENT_BACKEND_TERMINATION:
 			event_name = "BackendTermination";
 			break;
diff --git a/src/include/utils/wait_event.h b/src/include/utils/wait_event.h
index c22142365f..2edfdd3e51 100644
--- a/src/include/utils/wait_event.h
+++ b/src/include/utils/wait_event.h
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ typedef enum
 typedef enum
 {
 	WAIT_EVENT_APPEND_READY = PG_WAIT_IPC,
+	WAIT_EVENT_ARCHIVE_COMMAND,
 	WAIT_EVENT_BACKEND_TERMINATION,
 	WAIT_EVENT_BACKUP_WAIT_WAL_ARCHIVE,
 	WAIT_EVENT_BGWORKER_SHUTDOWN,