Some shops call this "synthetic monitoring" where the tests run are a subset of a full integration test, that can be run at regular, but timely, intervals of sa

Some shops call this "synthetic monitoring" where the tests run are a subset of a full integration test, that can be run at regular, but timely, intervals of say every 10 or 15 minutes. "The happy path" for some typical use cases. This monitoring shouldn't brush aside other system-level monitoring - which can alert on abnormal memory, disk space, error rates, etc.