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With Checkly, you can know within minutes if your service is unavailable for users, or acting unexpectedly. In this article we’ll talk about how Checkly traces can help you expand on the benefits of Checkly, adding insights that will help you diagnose root causes, and further reduce your mean time to resolution (MTTR) for outages and other incidents.

While there’s no single right answer for everyone, this post tries to break down how you can find the right cadence for your site checks.