It can be a good idea to count and record these safety net activations for reporting purposes. If you do so, the discussion of e.g. "Why do we run replicas for

It can be a good idea to count and record these safety net activations for reporting purposes. If you do so, the discussion of e.g. "Why do we run replicas for our databases" becomes a very simple discussion: It has simplified us maintenance X times this year (by avoiding downtime to to switch overs), and it has avoided Y outages (again due to automated switch overs) - recovery of the databases after the outage took Z hours, which would have been downtime. Suddenly you've moved the vague "We need it for safety and availability reasons" into concrete admin-hours and downtime-minutes. Or, "Can't we skip all these tests/other long-running quality process?"