Simple script you can put in your crontab to monitor replication state of all docs in the _replicator couchdb database. Will send an email with the host name, doc name and state if state is not 'triggered'.

couch-replicate-monitor.py

#!/usr/bin/python

"""
Simple script you can put in your 
crontab to monitor replication state
of all docs in the _replicator
couchdb database.

Will send an email with the host name,
doc name and state if state is not 'triggered'.
"""

EMAIL = 'you@you.com'
COUCH_PW = 'XXXXXX'
uri = 'http://127.0.0.1:5984/_replicator/_all_docs?include_docs=true'

import requests
import json
from pprint import pprint
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
import socket

HOST = socket.gethostname()

def mail(doc):
        ""
        msg = """
        STATE: %(state)s
        TIME:  %(time)s
        """ % dict(state=doc.get('_replication_state'), time=doc.get('_replication_state_time'))
        msg = MIMEText(msg)
        msg["From"] = "couchdb@" + HOST
        msg["To"] = EMAIL
        msg["Subject"] = "%s %s %s" % (HOST, doc.get('_replication_state'), doc.get('_id'))
        p = Popen(["/usr/sbin/sendmail", "-t"], stdin=PIPE)
        p.communicate(msg.as_string())

rs = requests.get(uri, auth=('admin', COUCH_PW))
for doc in json.loads(rs.text).get('rows'):
        doc = doc.get('doc')
        if not doc.get('_replication_state'): continue
        state = doc.get('_replication_state')
        if state != 'triggered':
                # email alert
                mail(doc)