Monitoring hot standby replication for failure

[Mark Steben <mark.steben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good afternoon,

We are running postgres 9.4.  We are outsourcing our databases to another datacenter owned by a third party company.  The methodology we are using to move the database is hot standby log shipping replication.  We will run streaming replication for several days then, when the time comes to pull the trigger and make the move, I will complete recovery, bring in a 'production' version of postgresql.conf, restart the database, and hand it over to the apps.  

We want to make sure that during the several days of replication we are immediately notified if a problem arises - a missing log, a production outage, etc.  Is there a monitor or an 'in-the-box' procedure, or perhaps a condition to check during hot standby or streaming replication to ensure things are still running as planned, or if there is a problem?  

Thanks for any insights. 

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Mark Steben
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