diff --git a/packages/pytest-simcore/src/pytest_simcore/helpers/playwright.py b/packages/pytest-simcore/src/pytest_simcore/helpers/playwright.py
index 38539f0d7fb..f063b6efd61 100644
--- a/packages/pytest-simcore/src/pytest_simcore/helpers/playwright.py
+++ b/packages/pytest-simcore/src/pytest_simcore/helpers/playwright.py
@@ -5,12 +5,15 @@
 from collections import defaultdict
 from collections.abc import Generator, Iterator
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from datetime import UTC, datetime, timedelta
 from enum import Enum, unique
 from typing import Any, Final
 
+import httpx
 from playwright.sync_api import FrameLocator, Page, Request
 from playwright.sync_api import TimeoutError as PlaywrightTimeoutError
 from playwright.sync_api import WebSocket
+from pydantic import AnyUrl
 from pytest_simcore.helpers.logging_tools import log_context
 
 SECOND: Final[int] = 1000
@@ -196,9 +199,11 @@ def __call__(self, message: str) -> None:
 class SocketIONodeProgressCompleteWaiter:
     node_id: str
     logger: logging.Logger
+    product_url: AnyUrl
     _current_progress: dict[NodeProgressType, float] = field(
         default_factory=defaultdict
     )
+    _last_poll_timestamp: datetime = field(default_factory=lambda: datetime.now(tz=UTC))
 
     def __call__(self, message: str) -> bool:
         # socket.io encodes messages like so
@@ -234,6 +239,27 @@ def __call__(self, message: str) -> bool:
                     round(progress, 1) == 1.0
                     for progress in self._current_progress.values()
                 )
+
+        _current_timestamp = datetime.now(UTC)
+        if _current_timestamp - self._last_poll_timestamp > timedelta(seconds=5):
+            url = f"https://{self.node_id}.services.{self.get_partial_product_url()}"
+            response = httpx.get(url, timeout=10)
+            self.logger.info(
+                "Querying the service endpoint from the E2E test. Url: %s Response: %s",
+                url,
+                response,
+            )
+            if response.status_code <= 401:
+                # NOTE: If the response status is less than 400, it means that the backend is ready (There are some services that respond with a 3XX)
+                # MD: for now I have included 401 - as this also means that backend is ready
+                if self.got_expected_node_progress_types():
+                    self.logger.warning(
+                        "⚠️ Progress bar didn't receive 100 percent but service is already running: %s ⚠️",  # https://github.com/ITISFoundation/osparc-simcore/issues/6449
+                        self.get_current_progress(),
+                    )
+                return True
+            self._last_poll_timestamp = datetime.now(UTC)
+
         return False
 
     def got_expected_node_progress_types(self):
@@ -245,6 +271,9 @@ def got_expected_node_progress_types(self):
     def get_current_progress(self):
         return self._current_progress.values()
 
+    def get_partial_product_url(self):
+        return f"{self.product_url}".split("//")[1]
+
 
 def wait_for_pipeline_state(
     current_state: RunningState,
@@ -332,9 +361,12 @@ def expected_service_running(
     websocket: WebSocket,
     timeout: int,
     press_start_button: bool,
+    product_url: AnyUrl,
 ) -> Generator[ServiceRunning, None, None]:
     with log_context(logging.INFO, msg="Waiting for node to run") as ctx:
-        waiter = SocketIONodeProgressCompleteWaiter(node_id=node_id, logger=ctx.logger)
+        waiter = SocketIONodeProgressCompleteWaiter(
+            node_id=node_id, logger=ctx.logger, product_url=product_url
+        )
         service_running = ServiceRunning(iframe_locator=None)
 
         try:
@@ -366,12 +398,15 @@ def wait_for_service_running(
     websocket: WebSocket,
     timeout: int,
     press_start_button: bool,
+    product_url: AnyUrl,
 ) -> FrameLocator:
     """NOTE: if the service was already started this will not work as some of the required websocket events will not be emitted again
     In which case this will need further adjutment"""
 
     with log_context(logging.INFO, msg="Waiting for node to run") as ctx:
-        waiter = SocketIONodeProgressCompleteWaiter(node_id=node_id, logger=ctx.logger)
+        waiter = SocketIONodeProgressCompleteWaiter(
+            node_id=node_id, logger=ctx.logger, product_url=product_url
+        )
         with websocket.expect_event("framereceived", waiter, timeout=timeout):
             if press_start_button:
                 _trigger_service_start(page, node_id)
diff --git a/packages/pytest-simcore/src/pytest_simcore/helpers/playwright_sim4life.py b/packages/pytest-simcore/src/pytest_simcore/helpers/playwright_sim4life.py
index d2349d6fa7c..c59718f4aff 100644
--- a/packages/pytest-simcore/src/pytest_simcore/helpers/playwright_sim4life.py
+++ b/packages/pytest-simcore/src/pytest_simcore/helpers/playwright_sim4life.py
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@
 
 import arrow
 from playwright.sync_api import FrameLocator, Page, WebSocket, expect
-from pydantic import TypeAdapter  # pylint: disable=no-name-in-module
-from pydantic import ByteSize
+from pydantic import AnyUrl, ByteSize, TypeAdapter  # pylint: disable=no-name-in-module
 
 from .logging_tools import log_context
 from .playwright import (
@@ -105,6 +104,7 @@ def wait_for_launched_s4l(
     *,
     autoscaled: bool,
     copy_workspace: bool,
+    product_url: AnyUrl,
 ) -> WaitForS4LDict:
     with log_context(logging.INFO, "launch S4L") as ctx:
         predicate = S4LWaitForWebsocket(logger=ctx.logger)
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ def wait_for_launched_s4l(
                 )
                 + (_S4L_COPY_WORKSPACE_TIME if copy_workspace else 0),
                 press_start_button=False,
+                product_url=product_url,
             )
         s4l_websocket = ws_info.value
         ctx.logger.info("acquired S4L websocket!")
diff --git a/tests/e2e-playwright/requirements/_test.in b/tests/e2e-playwright/requirements/_test.in
index a50905c9086..b3fd9442f78 100644
--- a/tests/e2e-playwright/requirements/_test.in
+++ b/tests/e2e-playwright/requirements/_test.in
@@ -13,3 +13,4 @@ pytest-runner
 pytest-sugar
 pyyaml
 tenacity
+httpx
diff --git a/tests/e2e-playwright/requirements/_test.txt b/tests/e2e-playwright/requirements/_test.txt
index 2934b76a3a8..011cb6fbd7c 100644
--- a/tests/e2e-playwright/requirements/_test.txt
+++ b/tests/e2e-playwright/requirements/_test.txt
@@ -1,24 +1,43 @@
+#
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.11
+# by the following command:
+#
+#    pip-compile _test.in
+#
 annotated-types==0.7.0
     # via pydantic
+anyio==4.6.2.post1
+    # via httpx
 arrow==1.3.0
-    # via -r requirements/_test.in
+    # via -r _test.in
 certifi==2024.8.30
-    # via requests
+    # via
+    #   httpcore
+    #   httpx
+    #   requests
 charset-normalizer==3.3.2
     # via requests
 dnspython==2.6.1
     # via email-validator
 docker==7.1.0
-    # via -r requirements/_test.in
+    # via -r _test.in
 email-validator==2.2.0
     # via pydantic
 faker==29.0.0
-    # via -r requirements/_test.in
+    # via -r _test.in
 greenlet==3.0.3
     # via playwright
+h11==0.14.0
+    # via httpcore
+httpcore==1.0.7
+    # via httpx
+httpx==0.27.2
+    # via -r _test.in
 idna==3.10
     # via
+    #   anyio
     #   email-validator
+    #   httpx
     #   requests
 iniconfig==2.0.0
     # via pytest
@@ -34,8 +53,8 @@ playwright==1.47.0
     # via pytest-playwright
 pluggy==1.5.0
     # via pytest
-pydantic==2.9.2
-    # via -r requirements/_test.in
+pydantic[email]==2.9.2
+    # via -r _test.in
 pydantic-core==2.23.4
     # via pydantic
 pyee==12.0.0
@@ -51,17 +70,17 @@ pytest==8.3.3
 pytest-base-url==2.1.0
     # via pytest-playwright
 pytest-html==4.1.1
-    # via -r requirements/_test.in
+    # via -r _test.in
 pytest-instafail==0.5.0
-    # via -r requirements/_test.in
+    # via -r _test.in
 pytest-metadata==3.1.1
     # via pytest-html
 pytest-playwright==0.5.2
-    # via -r requirements/_test.in
+    # via -r _test.in
 pytest-runner==6.0.1
-    # via -r requirements/_test.in
+    # via -r _test.in
 pytest-sugar==1.0.0
-    # via -r requirements/_test.in
+    # via -r _test.in
 python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
     # via
     #   arrow
@@ -69,15 +88,19 @@ python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
 python-slugify==8.0.4
     # via pytest-playwright
 pyyaml==6.0.2
-    # via -r requirements/_test.in
+    # via -r _test.in
 requests==2.32.3
     # via
     #   docker
     #   pytest-base-url
 six==1.16.0
     # via python-dateutil
+sniffio==1.3.1
+    # via
+    #   anyio
+    #   httpx
 tenacity==9.0.0
-    # via -r requirements/_test.in
+    # via -r _test.in
 termcolor==2.4.0
     # via pytest-sugar
 text-unidecode==1.3
diff --git a/tests/e2e-playwright/tests/sim4life/test_sim4life.py b/tests/e2e-playwright/tests/sim4life/test_sim4life.py
index 96c361bb546..924e6efa535 100644
--- a/tests/e2e-playwright/tests/sim4life/test_sim4life.py
+++ b/tests/e2e-playwright/tests/sim4life/test_sim4life.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 from typing import Any
 
 from playwright.sync_api import Page, WebSocket
+from pydantic import AnyUrl
 from pytest_simcore.helpers.playwright import (
     ServiceType,
     web_socket_default_log_handler,
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ def test_sim4life(
     use_plus_button: bool,
     is_autoscaled: bool,
     check_videostreaming: bool,
+    product_url: AnyUrl,
 ):
     if use_plus_button:
         project_data = create_project_from_new_button(service_key)
@@ -54,6 +56,7 @@ def test_sim4life(
         log_in_and_out,
         autoscaled=is_autoscaled,
         copy_workspace=False,
+        product_url=product_url,
     )
     s4l_websocket = resp["websocket"]
     with web_socket_default_log_handler(s4l_websocket):
diff --git a/tests/e2e-playwright/tests/tip/test_ti_plan.py b/tests/e2e-playwright/tests/tip/test_ti_plan.py
index aa878eb9274..56f028d197d 100644
--- a/tests/e2e-playwright/tests/tip/test_ti_plan.py
+++ b/tests/e2e-playwright/tests/tip/test_ti_plan.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 from typing import Any, Final
 
 from playwright.sync_api import Page, WebSocket
+from pydantic import AnyUrl
 from pytest_simcore.helpers.logging_tools import log_context
 from pytest_simcore.helpers.playwright import (
     MINUTE,
@@ -92,6 +93,7 @@ def test_classic_ti_plan(  # noqa: PLR0915
     is_autoscaled: bool,
     is_product_lite: bool,
     create_tip_plan_from_dashboard: Callable[[str], dict[str, Any]],
+    product_url: AnyUrl,
 ):
     with log_context(logging.INFO, "Checking 'Access TIP' teaser"):
         # click to open and expand
@@ -141,6 +143,7 @@ def test_classic_ti_plan(  # noqa: PLR0915
                 else _ELECTRODE_SELECTOR_MAX_STARTUP_TIME
             ),
             press_start_button=False,
+            product_url=product_url,
         )
         # NOTE: Sometimes this iframe flicks and shows a white page. This wait will avoid it
         page.wait_for_timeout(_ELECTRODE_SELECTOR_FLICKERING_WAIT_TIME)
@@ -200,6 +203,7 @@ def test_classic_ti_plan(  # noqa: PLR0915
                     else _JLAB_MAX_STARTUP_MAX_TIME
                 ),
                 press_start_button=False,
+                product_url=product_url,
             ) as service_running:
                 app_mode_trigger_next_app(page)
             ti_iframe = service_running.iframe_locator
@@ -284,6 +288,7 @@ def test_classic_ti_plan(  # noqa: PLR0915
                     else _POST_PRO_MAX_STARTUP_TIME
                 ),
                 press_start_button=False,
+                product_url=product_url,
             ) as service_running:
                 app_mode_trigger_next_app(page)
             s4l_postpro_iframe = service_running.iframe_locator