Checkly enables engineers to automate the monitoring of their production services. Using the automation framework Playwright, you can run an end-to-end test on a regular cadence to make sure every feature is working for your users. But once you’ve got your check set up, either with Playwright scripting, a Terraform template, or an OpenAPI spec, we come to the question of what frequency you should run these checks. Should you be checking every few minutes, or every hour?