Detect MongoDB status

Question

We are currently storing performance and search stats from our app with a free MongoDB sandbox on MongoLab. They recently had an outage which in turn affected our app (there is no replica set on the free sandbox).

Is there anyway to check the status of a MongoDB connection quickly (without having to waiting for a timeout as this takes too long) before trying to insert or update any data?

Answer 1

If by "detect status" you want to see whether you can access the server then use Ping:

new MongoClient("mongodb://localhost:27017").GetServer().Ping();

It throws an exception if the server cannot be reached.