Timecop is a service which is handles various public API and SMTP testing tools.
Timecop periodically sends emails to it's self through Mailgun public HTTP and SMTP servers. It attaches a special header with a timestamp of when the email was sent, when timecop receives the email via it's own SMTP server running on port 25, it compares the send timestamp with the current time and emits a round trip metric via prometheus. If the round trip time is longer than a set thresh hold it alerts the pipeline team via pagerduty.