You should not turn off your heating, but to check whether the system is delivering proper performance, you can also simply turn off the gas valve for a couple of days! If your heating does not produce an error message, then no attempt was made to heat hot water using gas.
With us, it is also clearly measurable by the hot water temperature. With gas about 53 degrees, as soon as the solar system heats as well, it comes out of the tap significantly warmer.