diff --git a/changelog/items/other/blocker-health-check.md b/changelog/items/other/blocker-health-check.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2e45834c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/items/other/blocker-health-check.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+- Add health check for the blocker container
diff --git a/packages/health-check/src/checks/critical.js b/packages/health-check/src/checks/critical.js
index dd614beb..22051bda 100644
--- a/packages/health-check/src/checks/critical.js
+++ b/packages/health-check/src/checks/critical.js
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 const got = require("got");
 const FormData = require("form-data");
 const { isEqual } = require("lodash");
-const { calculateElapsedTime, getResponseContent, getAuthCookie } = require("../utils");
+const { calculateElapsedTime, getResponseContent, getAuthCookie, isPortalModuleEnabled } = require("../utils");
 const { SkynetClient, stringToUint8ArrayUtf8, genKeyPairAndSeed } = require("skynet-js");
 
+const MODULE_BLOCKER = "b";
+
 const skynetClient = new SkynetClient(process.env.SKYNET_PORTAL_API);
 const exampleSkylink = "AACogzrAimYPG42tDOKhS3lXZD8YvlF8Q8R17afe95iV2Q";
 
@@ -173,6 +175,33 @@ async function accountHealthCheck(done) {
   done({ name: "accounts", time: calculateElapsedTime(time), ...data });
 }
 
+// blockerHealthCheck returns the result of blocker container health endpoint
+async function blockerHealthCheck(done) {
+  const time = process.hrtime();
+  const data = { up: false };
+
+  try {
+    const response = await got(`http://${process.env.BLOCKER_HOST}:${process.env.BLOCKER_PORT}/health`, {
+      responseType: "json",
+    });
+
+    data.statusCode = response.statusCode;
+    data.response = response.body;
+    data.up = response.body.dbAlive === true;
+  } catch (error) {
+    data.statusCode = error?.response?.statusCode || error.statusCode || error.status;
+    data.errorMessage = error.message;
+    data.errorResponseContent = getResponseContent(error.response);
+  }
+
+  // this is a no-op but it's added to explicitly document the ip property
+  // should not be set on the data object to prevent the IP from being compared
+  // to the server's IP - this is not required for this check and will fail
+  delete data.ip;
+
+  done({ name: "blocker", time: calculateElapsedTime(time), ...data });
+}
+
 async function genericAccessCheck(name, url) {
   const authCookie = await getAuthCookie();
   const time = process.hrtime();
@@ -210,4 +239,8 @@ if (process.env.ACCOUNTS_ENABLED === "true") {
   checks.push(accountHealthCheck, accountWebsiteCheck);
 }
 
+if (isPortalModuleEnabled(MODULE_BLOCKER)) {
+  checks.push(blockerHealthCheck);
+}
+
 module.exports = checks;
diff --git a/packages/health-check/src/utils.js b/packages/health-check/src/utils.js
index 7ff84bec..6e35f75e 100644
--- a/packages/health-check/src/utils.js
+++ b/packages/health-check/src/utils.js
@@ -100,10 +100,18 @@ function getAuthCookie() {
   return (getAuthCookie.cache = authenticate());
 }
 
+/**
+ * isPortalModuleEnabled returns true if the given module is enabled
+ */
+function isPortalModuleEnabled(module) {
+  return process.env.PORTAL_MODULES && process.env.PORTAL_MODULES.indexOf(module) !== -1;
+}
+
 module.exports = {
   calculateElapsedTime,
   getYesterdayISOString,
   getResponseContent,
   ensureValidJSON,
   getAuthCookie,
+  isPortalModuleEnabled,
 };