# Healthcheck through another container then the particiapting container

**URL:** https://community.traefik.io/t/healthcheck-through-another-container-then-the-particiapting-container/5782
**Category:** Traefik v2
**Tags:** tracing
**Created:** [April 28, 2020, 9:25pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/healthcheck-through-another-container-then-the-particiapting-container/5782 "2020-04-28T21:25:43Z")
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### Author: ![michaela.lang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@michaela.lang](https://community.traefik.io/u/michaela.lang)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2020, 9:25pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/healthcheck-through-another-container-then-the-particiapting-container/5782/1 "2020-04-28T21:25:43Z")

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Hi,  
I was looking into the possibility to implement health monitoring for services which do not expose any useful 200 =\> \< 300 return code endpoint.  
The idea was to have _another_ container doing the health check and reporting this through a defined endpoint as health check for Traefik.

I did find the section for services and healthchecks being able to _add_ a hostname which would be overwritten in the health check request from Traefik, unfortunately it's only the Host Header in the request and the destination stays to the original Container IP.

Is there a way to _redirect_ the health check to a different service/container.

kind regards for any support or hint  
Michaela