diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index e5d622d514..e2426f7210 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -2289,6 +2289,10 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       <entry>Waiting while sending synchronization requests to the
        checkpointer, because the request queue is full.</entry>
      </row>
+     <row>
+      <entry><literal>SpinDelay</literal></entry>
+      <entry>Waiting while acquiring a contended spinlock.</entry>
+     </row>
      <row>
       <entry><literal>VacuumDelay</literal></entry>
       <entry>Waiting in a cost-based vacuum delay point.</entry>
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/lmgr/s_lock.c b/src/backend/storage/lmgr/s_lock.c
index 4e473ec27e..c3227b11ab 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/lmgr/s_lock.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/lmgr/s_lock.c
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
 #include "common/pg_prng.h"
 #include "port/atomics.h"
 #include "storage/s_lock.h"
+#include "utils/wait_event.h"
 
 #define MIN_SPINS_PER_DELAY 10
 #define MAX_SPINS_PER_DELAY 1000
@@ -136,7 +137,17 @@ perform_spin_delay(SpinDelayStatus *status)
 		if (status->cur_delay == 0) /* first time to delay? */
 			status->cur_delay = MIN_DELAY_USEC;
 
+		/*
+		 * Once we start sleeping, the overhead of reporting a wait event is
+		 * justified. Actively spinning easily stands out in profilers, but
+		 * sleeping with an exponential backoff is harder to spot...
+		 *
+		 * We might want to report something more granular at some point, but
+		 * this is better than nothing.
+		 */
+		pgstat_report_wait_start(WAIT_EVENT_SPIN_DELAY);
 		pg_usleep(status->cur_delay);
+		pgstat_report_wait_end();
 
 #if defined(S_LOCK_TEST)
 		fprintf(stdout, "*");
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/activity/wait_event.c b/src/backend/utils/activity/wait_event.c
index 92f24a6c9b..b2abd75ddb 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/activity/wait_event.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/activity/wait_event.c
@@ -497,6 +497,9 @@ pgstat_get_wait_timeout(WaitEventTimeout w)
 		case WAIT_EVENT_REGISTER_SYNC_REQUEST:
 			event_name = "RegisterSyncRequest";
 			break;
+		case WAIT_EVENT_SPIN_DELAY:
+			event_name = "SpinDelay";
+			break;
 		case WAIT_EVENT_VACUUM_DELAY:
 			event_name = "VacuumDelay";
 			break;
diff --git a/src/include/utils/wait_event.h b/src/include/utils/wait_event.h
index 6f2d5612e0..0b2100be4a 100644
--- a/src/include/utils/wait_event.h
+++ b/src/include/utils/wait_event.h
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ typedef enum
 	WAIT_EVENT_RECOVERY_APPLY_DELAY,
 	WAIT_EVENT_RECOVERY_RETRIEVE_RETRY_INTERVAL,
 	WAIT_EVENT_REGISTER_SYNC_REQUEST,
+	WAIT_EVENT_SPIN_DELAY,
 	WAIT_EVENT_VACUUM_DELAY,
 	WAIT_EVENT_VACUUM_TRUNCATE
 } WaitEventTimeout;