In certain circumstances, `repmgrd` is not able to fulfill its primary mission of monitoring the nodes' upstream server. In these cases it enters "degraded monitoring" mode, where `repmgrd` remains active but is waiting for the situation to be resolved. Situations where this happens are: a failover situation has occurred, no nodes in the primary node's location are visible a failover situation has occurred, but no promotion candidate is available a failover situation has occurred, but the promotion candidate could not be promoted a failover situation has occurred, but the node was unable to follow the new primary a failover situation has occurred, but no primary has become available a failover situation has occurred, but automatic failover is not enabled for the node repmgrd is monitoring the primary node, but it is not available Example output in a situation where there is only one standby with failover=manual, and the primary node is unavailable (but is later restarted): [2017-08-29 10:59:19] [INFO] node "node2" (node ID: 2) monitoring upstream node "node1" (node ID: 1) in normal state (automatic failover disabled) [2017-08-29 10:59:33] [WARNING] unable to connect to upstream node "node1" (node ID: 1) [2017-08-29 10:59:33] [INFO] checking state of node 1, 1 of 5 attempts [2017-08-29 10:59:33] [INFO] sleeping 1 seconds until next reconnection attempt (...) [2017-08-29 10:59:37] [INFO] checking state of node 1, 5 of 5 attempts [2017-08-29 10:59:37] [WARNING] unable to reconnect to node 1 after 5 attempts [2017-08-29 10:59:37] [NOTICE] this node is not configured for automatic failover so will not be considered as promotion candidate [2017-08-29 10:59:37] [NOTICE] no other nodes are available as promotion candidate [2017-08-29 10:59:37] [HINT] use "repmgr standby promote" to manually promote this node [2017-08-29 10:59:37] [INFO] node "node2" (node ID: 2) monitoring upstream node "node1" (node ID: 1) in degraded state (automatic failover disabled) [2017-08-29 10:59:53] [INFO] node "node2" (node ID: 2) monitoring upstream node "node1" (node ID: 1) in degraded state (automatic failover disabled) [2017-08-29 11:00:45] [NOTICE] reconnected to upstream node 1 after 68 seconds, resuming monitoring [2017-08-29 11:00:57] [INFO] node "node2" (node ID: 2) monitoring upstream node "node1" (node ID: 1) in normal state (automatic failover disabled) By default, repmgrd will continue in degraded monitoring mode indefinitely. However a timeout (in seconds) can be set with degraded_monitoring_timeout.