Error: 8474, State: 11

  • This morning several of our instances are showing the following error:

    Description: An error occurred in a Service Broker/Database Mirroring transport connection endpoint, Error: 8474, State: 11. (Near endpoint role: Target, far endpoint address: '')

    However all mirrored DBs appear to be synchronized and not all instances with this error have mirrored DBs.

    What might be going on?

  • Mystery solved:

    Our Network Security group was running a scan that attempted to connect using the port SQL uses for database mirroring. Since the connect request was not a valid mirroring connection, errors were generated. This explains how the error also occurred on instances with no mirrored databases.

    I'm glad I didn't follow one piece of advice found online and restart the mirror endpoints. Nothing broken on the SQL side. 😛

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