Can someone provide some inputs on how I can monitor daily backups?
I am looking for a monitoring system which notifies the user when the backup operation has failed.
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Backups (as well as other system events) log warnings and errors into both the file based error log (/Logs/ErrorLog.txt) and the system log (syslog on linux/unix, Windows event log on windows).
There are many tools available for log file 'tailing' and alerting -- many good ones are open source and free. That would be my first suggestion.
For a more active programmatic implementation you can use the admin: API's (XQuery, JavaScript or Rest) to query the backup status and validate backups. For a place to start look at https://docs.marklogic.com/xdmp:database-backup-status
