diff --git a/nodes/monitor_test_1 b/nodes/monitor_test_1
index 764389552688b16d88a23cbe0d37197a29308c86..9a108296437c7413090b727b6298666e205573c3 100755
--- a/nodes/monitor_test_1
+++ b/nodes/monitor_test_1
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ from monitoring.monitor import Monitor
 
 def monitor_test_1():
     rospy.init_node("monitor_test_1")
-    monitor = Monitor(1, 1.0)
+    monitor = Monitor(1, 0.2)
 
-    rate = rospy.Rate(10)
+    rate = rospy.Rate(0.2)
     while not rospy.is_shutdown():
         monitor.update_metric("test_domain_1", "test_label_1", 10, "unit", 0.5)
         rate.sleep()
diff --git a/nodes/monitor_test_2 b/nodes/monitor_test_2
index aea6a3a5d054441d953ebd529b07d3ec81735cca..784689ea95dea6595e93f0005b81377c73a3f7fa 100755
--- a/nodes/monitor_test_2
+++ b/nodes/monitor_test_2
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ from monitoring.monitor import Monitor
 
 def monitor_test_2():
     rospy.init_node("monitor_test_2")
-    monitor = Monitor(1, 1.0)
+    monitor = Monitor(1, 0.2)
 
-    rate = rospy.Rate(10)
+    rate = rospy.Rate(1.0)
     value = 0
     while not rospy.is_shutdown():
         monitor.update_metric("test_domain_1", "test_label_2", 10, "unit", value)
diff --git a/nodes/monitor_test_3 b/nodes/monitor_test_3
index f24cb767fbde865afee2036f8c23b2861e8aae38..5ed32c90860bd841c25d0c47dc0a71d067c89774 100755
--- a/nodes/monitor_test_3
+++ b/nodes/monitor_test_3
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ from monitoring.monitor import Monitor
 
 def monitor_test_3():
     rospy.init_node("monitor_test_3")
-    monitor = Monitor(1, 1.0)
+    monitor = Monitor(1, 0.2)
 
-    rate = rospy.Rate(10)
+    rate = rospy.Rate(0.2)
     while not rospy.is_shutdown():
         monitor.update_metric("test_domain_2", "test_label_3", 10, "unit", 1.0)
         rate.sleep()