title: How to Ping externally hosted server from Heroku?
body: <p>I am connecting to a externally hosted MongoDB server from Heroku app. I need to test <strong>latency</strong> between my Heroku app and <strong>MongoDB server</strong>. I ran <strong>Heroku bash</strong> but '<strong>ping</strong>' command is not available there. My only purpose is to test <strong>latency</strong> between Heroku and MongoDB server.</p>