diff --git a/src/backend/utils/activity/wait_event_names.txt b/src/backend/utils/activity/wait_event_names.txt
index 560659f956856..d4a0f6361ad26 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/activity/wait_event_names.txt
+++ b/src/backend/utils/activity/wait_event_names.txt
@@ -258,6 +258,9 @@ SLRU_WRITE	"Waiting for a write of an SLRU page."
 SNAPBUILD_READ	"Waiting for a read of a serialized historical catalog snapshot."
 SNAPBUILD_SYNC	"Waiting for a serialized historical catalog snapshot to reach durable storage."
 SNAPBUILD_WRITE	"Waiting for a write of a serialized historical catalog snapshot."
+STDERR_WRITE	"Waiting for a write to the server's standard error stream."
+SYSLOGGER_WRITE	"Waiting for a write to the syslogger pipe."
+SYSLOG_WRITE	"Waiting for a write to the system logger (syslog)."
 TIMELINE_HISTORY_FILE_SYNC	"Waiting for a timeline history file received via streaming replication to reach durable storage."
 TIMELINE_HISTORY_FILE_WRITE	"Waiting for a write of a timeline history file received via streaming replication."
 TIMELINE_HISTORY_READ	"Waiting for a read of a timeline history file."
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c b/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c
index a6936a0c664a9..1e715f1a5f9d7 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@
 #include "utils/pg_locale.h"
 #include "utils/ps_status.h"
 #include "utils/varlena.h"
+#include "utils/wait_event.h"
 
 
 /* In this module, access gettext() via err_gettext() */
@@ -2890,10 +2891,12 @@ write_syslog(int level, const char *line)
 
 			chunk_nr++;
 
+			pgstat_report_wait_start(WAIT_EVENT_SYSLOG_WRITE);
 			if (syslog_sequence_numbers)
 				syslog(level, "[%lu-%d] %s", seq, chunk_nr, buf);
 			else
 				syslog(level, "[%d] %s", chunk_nr, buf);
+			pgstat_report_wait_end();
 
 			line += buflen;
 			len -= buflen;
@@ -2902,10 +2905,12 @@ write_syslog(int level, const char *line)
 	else
 	{
 		/* message short enough */
+		pgstat_report_wait_start(WAIT_EVENT_SYSLOG_WRITE);
 		if (syslog_sequence_numbers)
 			syslog(level, "[%lu] %s", seq, line);
 		else
 			syslog(level, "%s", line);
+		pgstat_report_wait_end();
 	}
 }
 #endif							/* HAVE_SYSLOG */
@@ -3090,7 +3095,9 @@ write_console(const char *line, int len)
 	 * We ignore any error from write() here.  We have no useful way to report
 	 * it ... certainly whining on stderr isn't likely to be productive.
 	 */
+	pgstat_report_wait_start(WAIT_EVENT_STDERR_WRITE);
 	rc = write(fileno(stderr), line, len);
+	pgstat_report_wait_end();
 	(void) rc;
 }
 
@@ -3937,7 +3944,9 @@ write_pipe_chunks(char *data, int len, int dest)
 		/* no need to set PIPE_PROTO_IS_LAST yet */
 		p.proto.len = PIPE_MAX_PAYLOAD;
 		memcpy(p.proto.data, data, PIPE_MAX_PAYLOAD);
+		pgstat_report_wait_start(WAIT_EVENT_SYSLOGGER_WRITE);
 		rc = write(fd, &p, PIPE_HEADER_SIZE + PIPE_MAX_PAYLOAD);
+		pgstat_report_wait_end();
 		(void) rc;
 		data += PIPE_MAX_PAYLOAD;
 		len -= PIPE_MAX_PAYLOAD;
@@ -3947,7 +3956,9 @@ write_pipe_chunks(char *data, int len, int dest)
 	p.proto.flags |= PIPE_PROTO_IS_LAST;
 	p.proto.len = len;
 	memcpy(p.proto.data, data, len);
+	pgstat_report_wait_start(WAIT_EVENT_SYSLOGGER_WRITE);
 	rc = write(fd, &p, PIPE_HEADER_SIZE + len);
+	pgstat_report_wait_end();
 	(void) rc;
 }