diff --git a/docs/changelog/next_release/346.feature.rst b/docs/changelog/next_release/346.feature.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3d1e4603
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/changelog/next_release/346.feature.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Now ``DB.check()`` will test connection availability not only on Spark driver, but also from some Spark executor.
+This allows to fail immediately if Spark driver host has network access to target DB, but Spark executors haven't.
diff --git a/onetl/connection/db_connection/greenplum/connection.py b/onetl/connection/db_connection/greenplum/connection.py
index 407e0527..005fe2e7 100644
--- a/onetl/connection/db_connection/greenplum/connection.py
+++ b/onetl/connection/db_connection/greenplum/connection.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
     get_client_info,
     get_executor_total_cores,
     get_spark_version,
+    override_job_description,
 )
 from onetl._util.version import Version
 from onetl.connection.db_connection.db_connection import DBConnection
@@ -185,6 +186,9 @@ class Greenplum(JDBCMixin, DBConnection):  # noqa: WPS338
     CONNECTIONS_EXCEPTION_LIMIT: ClassVar[int] = 100
 
     _CHECK_QUERY: ClassVar[str] = "SELECT 1"
+    # any small table with always present in db, and which any user can access
+    # https://www.greenplumdba.com/pg-catalog-tables-and-views
+    _CHECK_DUMMY_TABLE: ClassVar[str] = "pg_catalog.gp_id"
 
     @slot
     @classmethod
@@ -303,6 +307,30 @@ def jdbc_params(self) -> dict:
         result.update(self.jdbc_custom_params)
         return result
 
+    @slot
+    def check(self):
+        log.info("|%s| Checking connection availability...", self.__class__.__name__)
+        self._log_parameters()  # type: ignore
+
+        log.debug("|%s| Executing SQL query:", self.__class__.__name__)
+        log_lines(log, self._CHECK_QUERY, level=logging.DEBUG)
+
+        try:
+            with override_job_description(self.spark, f"{self}.check()"):
+                self._query_optional_on_driver(self._CHECK_QUERY, self.FetchOptions(fetchsize=1))
+
+                read_options = self._get_connector_params(self._CHECK_DUMMY_TABLE)
+                read_options["num_partitions"] = 1  # do not require gp_segment_id column in table
+                df = self.spark.read.format("greenplum").options(**read_options).load()
+                df.take(1)
+
+            log.info("|%s| Connection is available.", self.__class__.__name__)
+        except Exception as e:
+            log.exception("|%s| Connection is unavailable", self.__class__.__name__)
+            raise RuntimeError("Connection is unavailable") from e
+
+        return self
+
     @slot
     def read_source_as_df(
         self,
diff --git a/onetl/connection/db_connection/hive/connection.py b/onetl/connection/db_connection/hive/connection.py
index 4fe1270d..124b3eaf 100644
--- a/onetl/connection/db_connection/hive/connection.py
+++ b/onetl/connection/db_connection/hive/connection.py
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ def check(self):
 
         try:
             with override_job_description(self.spark, f"{self}.check()"):
-                self._execute_sql(self._CHECK_QUERY).limit(1).collect()
+                self._execute_sql(self._CHECK_QUERY).take(1)
             log.info("|%s| Connection is available.", self.__class__.__name__)
         except Exception as e:
             log.exception("|%s| Connection is unavailable", self.__class__.__name__)
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ def get_min_max_values(
             hint=hint,
         )
 
-        log.info("|%s| Executing SQL query (on driver):", self.__class__.__name__)
+        log.info("|%s| Executing SQL query:", self.__class__.__name__)
         log_lines(log, query)
 
         df = self._execute_sql(query)
diff --git a/onetl/connection/db_connection/jdbc_connection/connection.py b/onetl/connection/db_connection/jdbc_connection/connection.py
index cb1e16a5..bb08f2b4 100644
--- a/onetl/connection/db_connection/jdbc_connection/connection.py
+++ b/onetl/connection/db_connection/jdbc_connection/connection.py
@@ -89,6 +89,25 @@ def _check_java_class_imported(cls, spark):
             raise ValueError(msg) from e
         return spark
 
+    @slot
+    def check(self):
+        log.info("|%s| Checking connection availability...", self.__class__.__name__)
+        self._log_parameters()  # type: ignore
+
+        log.debug("|%s| Executing SQL query:", self.__class__.__name__)
+        log_lines(log, self._CHECK_QUERY, level=logging.DEBUG)
+
+        try:
+            with override_job_description(self.spark, f"{self}.check()"):
+                self._query_optional_on_driver(self._CHECK_QUERY, self.FetchOptions(fetchsize=1))
+                self._query_on_executor(self._CHECK_QUERY, self.SQLOptions(fetchsize=1)).collect()
+            log.info("|%s| Connection is available.", self.__class__.__name__)
+        except Exception as e:
+            log.exception("|%s| Connection is unavailable", self.__class__.__name__)
+            raise RuntimeError("Connection is unavailable") from e
+
+        return self
+
     @slot
     def sql(
         self,
diff --git a/onetl/connection/db_connection/jdbc_mixin/connection.py b/onetl/connection/db_connection/jdbc_mixin/connection.py
index d2bea9b1..22c6ec70 100644
--- a/onetl/connection/db_connection/jdbc_mixin/connection.py
+++ b/onetl/connection/db_connection/jdbc_mixin/connection.py
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ class JDBCMixin:
     ExecuteOptions = JDBCExecuteOptions
 
     DRIVER: ClassVar[str]
-    _CHECK_QUERY: ClassVar[str] = "SELECT 1"
 
     @property
     @abstractmethod
@@ -141,23 +140,6 @@ def __enter__(self):
     def __exit__(self, _exc_type, _exc_value, _traceback):  # noqa: U101
         self.close()
 
-    @slot
-    def check(self):
-        log.info("|%s| Checking connection availability...", self.__class__.__name__)
-        self._log_parameters()  # type: ignore
-
-        log.debug("|%s| Executing SQL query (on driver):", self.__class__.__name__)
-        log_lines(log, self._CHECK_QUERY, level=logging.DEBUG)
-
-        try:
-            self._query_optional_on_driver(self._CHECK_QUERY, self.FetchOptions(fetchsize=1))
-            log.info("|%s| Connection is available.", self.__class__.__name__)
-        except Exception as e:
-            log.exception("|%s| Connection is unavailable", self.__class__.__name__)
-            raise RuntimeError("Connection is unavailable") from e
-
-        return self
-
     @slot
     def fetch(
         self,
diff --git a/onetl/connection/db_connection/kafka/connection.py b/onetl/connection/db_connection/kafka/connection.py
index 9cb335cc..28fff3e0 100644
--- a/onetl/connection/db_connection/kafka/connection.py
+++ b/onetl/connection/db_connection/kafka/connection.py
@@ -16,7 +16,12 @@
 
 from onetl._util.java import try_import_java_class
 from onetl._util.scala import get_default_scala_version
-from onetl._util.spark import get_client_info, get_spark_version, stringify
+from onetl._util.spark import (
+    get_client_info,
+    get_spark_version,
+    override_job_description,
+    stringify,
+)
 from onetl._util.version import Version
 from onetl.connection.db_connection.db_connection import DBConnection
 from onetl.connection.db_connection.kafka.dialect import KafkaDialect
@@ -223,7 +228,14 @@ def check(self):
         self._log_parameters()
 
         try:
-            self._get_topics()
+            with override_job_description(self.spark, f"{self}.check()"):
+                self._get_topics()
+
+                read_options = {f"kafka.{key}": value for key, value in self._get_connection_properties().items()}
+                # We need to read just any topic allowed to check if Kafka is alive
+                read_options["subscribePattern"] = ".*"
+                self.spark.read.format("kafka").options(**read_options).load().take(1)
+
             log.info("|%s| Connection is available.", self.__class__.__name__)
         except Exception as e:
             log.exception("|%s| Connection is unavailable", self.__class__.__name__)
diff --git a/onetl/connection/db_connection/mongodb/connection.py b/onetl/connection/db_connection/mongodb/connection.py
index 4f455cec..c2164d42 100644
--- a/onetl/connection/db_connection/mongodb/connection.py
+++ b/onetl/connection/db_connection/mongodb/connection.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 import json
 import logging
 import warnings
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, ClassVar
 from urllib import parse as parser
 
 from etl_entities.instance import Host
@@ -129,6 +129,10 @@ class MongoDB(DBConnection):
     PipelineOptions = MongoDBPipelineOptions
     Extra = MongoDBExtra
 
+    # any small collection with always present in db, and which any user can access
+    # https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/reference/system-collections/
+    _CHECK_DUMMY_COLLECTION: ClassVar[str] = "admin.system.version"
+
     @slot
     @classmethod
     def get_packages(
@@ -373,6 +377,15 @@ def check(self):
             jvm = self.spark._jvm  # type: ignore
             client = jvm.com.mongodb.client.MongoClients.create(self.connection_url)
             list(client.listDatabaseNames().iterator())
+
+            with override_job_description(self.spark, f"{self}.check()"):
+                read_options = {
+                    "connection.uri": self.connection_url,
+                    "database": self.database,
+                    "collection": self._CHECK_DUMMY_COLLECTION,
+                }
+                self.spark.read.format("mongodb").options(**read_options).load().take(1)
+
             log.info("|%s| Connection is available.", self.__class__.__name__)
         except Exception as e:
             log.exception("|%s| Connection is unavailable", self.__class__.__name__)
diff --git a/tests/tests_integration/test_metrics/test_spark_metrics_recorder_postgres.py b/tests/tests_integration/test_metrics/test_spark_metrics_recorder_postgres.py
index aa391eb8..58fae7c4 100644
--- a/tests/tests_integration/test_metrics/test_spark_metrics_recorder_postgres.py
+++ b/tests/tests_integration/test_metrics/test_spark_metrics_recorder_postgres.py
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ def test_spark_metrics_recorder_postgres_read(spark, processing, load_table_data
 
         time.sleep(0.1)  # sleep to fetch late metrics from SparkListener
         metrics = recorder.metrics()
-        assert metrics.input.read_rows == rows
+        # +1 is just postgres.check()
+        assert metrics.input.read_rows == rows + 1
         # JDBC does not provide information about data size
         assert not metrics.input.read_bytes
 
@@ -64,7 +65,8 @@ def test_spark_metrics_recorder_postgres_read_empty_source(spark, processing, pr
 
         time.sleep(0.1)  # sleep to fetch late metrics from SparkListener
         metrics = recorder.metrics()
-        assert not metrics.input.read_rows
+        # 1 is just postgres.check()
+        assert metrics.input.read_rows == 1
 
 
 def test_spark_metrics_recorder_postgres_read_no_data_after_filter(spark, processing, load_table_data):
@@ -89,7 +91,8 @@ def test_spark_metrics_recorder_postgres_read_no_data_after_filter(spark, proces
 
         time.sleep(0.1)  # sleep to fetch late metrics from SparkListener
         metrics = recorder.metrics()
-        assert not metrics.input.read_rows
+        # 1 is just postgres.check()
+        assert metrics.input.read_rows == 1
 
 
 def test_spark_metrics_recorder_postgres_sql(spark, processing, load_table_data):
diff --git a/tests/tests_integration/tests_db_connection_integration/test_oracle_integration.py b/tests/tests_integration/tests_db_connection_integration/test_oracle_integration.py
index cee16267..0927d2a5 100644
--- a/tests/tests_integration/tests_db_connection_integration/test_oracle_integration.py
+++ b/tests/tests_integration/tests_db_connection_integration/test_oracle_integration.py
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ def test_oracle_connection_sql(spark, processing, load_table_data, suffix):
     filtered_df = table_df[table_df.ID_INT < 50]
     processing.assert_equal_df(df=df, other_frame=filtered_df, order_by="id_int")
 
-    # client info is expectedc
+    # client info is expected
     df = oracle.sql(f"SELECT program FROM v$session WHERE program LIKE '%onETL%'{suffix}")
     client_info = df.collect()[0][0]
     assert client_info.startswith("local-")
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ def test_oracle_connection_fetch(spark, processing, load_table_data, suffix):
     filtered_df = table_df[table_df.ID_INT < 50]
     processing.assert_equal_df(df=df, other_frame=filtered_df, order_by="id_int")
 
-    # client info is expectedc
+    # client info is expected
     df = oracle.fetch(f"SELECT program FROM v$session WHERE program LIKE '%onETL%'{suffix}")
     client_info = df.collect()[0][0]
     assert client_info.startswith("local-")
diff --git a/tests/tests_integration/tests_db_connection_integration/test_teradata_integration.py b/tests/tests_integration/tests_db_connection_integration/test_teradata_integration.py
index f3224025..d905d634 100644
--- a/tests/tests_integration/tests_db_connection_integration/test_teradata_integration.py
+++ b/tests/tests_integration/tests_db_connection_integration/test_teradata_integration.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ def test_teradata_connection_check(spark, mocker, caplog):
     password = secrets.token_hex()
 
     mocker.patch.object(Teradata, "_query_optional_on_driver")
+    mocker.patch.object(Teradata, "_query_on_executor")
 
     teradata = Teradata(
         host=host,