Merge pull request #34763 from mhyon/docs-editor/monitoring-metrics-alerts-1753207219

Update monitoring-metrics-alerts.md

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azure-sql/database/monitoring-metrics-alerts.md

@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ The following table describes commonly used metrics in Azure SQL Database.
 | **Failed Connections : User Errors** | `connection_failed_user_error` | This metric shows the number of connection attempts to a database that failed because of user-correctable errors, such as an incorrect password or connection being blocked by firewall. This metric can be split by two dimensions, `Error` and `ValidatedDriverNameAndVersion`, to see the number of failed connection attempts due to a specific error, or from a specific client driver. |
 | **Deadlocks** | `deadlock` | This metric shows the number of [deadlocks](analyze-prevent-deadlocks.md) in a database.|
 | **Availability** | `availability` | Availability is determined based on the database being operational for connections. For each one-minute data point, the possible values are either `100%` or `0%`. For more information, see [Availability metric](#availability-metric). |
+| **Replication lag (preview)** | `replication_lag_seconds` |Replication lag is the time span in seconds from the point of transaction commit on the Primary and the acknowledgement by the Secondary that the transaction log update has been persisted.  This value is available on the primary database only. For more information about RTO and RPO, see [Business continuity in Azure SQL Database](business-continuity-high-availability-disaster-recover-hadr-overview.md#rto-and-rpo) |
 
 #### Availability metric