Website Monitoring - Optimizing Checks

I need assistance optimizing my current website monitoring process. At the moment, I am monitoring 82 websites at 20-minute intervals, between 7:00 AM and 9:00 PM.

Ideally, the system should perform approximately 3,444 cloud checks per day; however, on some days, this number exceeds 11,000 checks.

How can I adjust this process to prevent excessive checks and ensure the monitoring remains within the expected limits?

here two ways to optimize checks:

  1. offload some of the most frequently checked monitors to a load device. if there is a page that is slow to load, it is best to run them locally[1].
  2. use crontab to schedule checks within a specific time period.

[1] From Pricing | Distill – In cloud, checks are counted in units of 10 seconds. If a check takes upto 10s, it is counted as one. If it takes more than 10s and less than 20s, it is counted as two.