diff --git a/app/api.py b/app/api.py
index 6c81a72..ec106f9 100644
--- a/app/api.py
+++ b/app/api.py
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 
 import spacy
 import srsly  # type: ignore
-from fastapi import Body, FastAPI
-from starlette.responses import RedirectResponse
+from fastapi import Body, FastAPI, status
+from starlette.responses import PlainTextResponse, RedirectResponse
 
 from app.entity_models import Request, Response
 from app.spacy_extractor import SpacyExtractor
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@
 extractor = SpacyExtractor(nlp)
 
 
+@app.get("/healthz", response_model=str, status_code=status.HTTP_200_OK)
+def health():
+    return PlainTextResponse(".")
+
+
 @app.get("/", include_in_schema=False)
 def docs_redirect():
     return RedirectResponse("/docs")