diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index 6e234d0..f65fe1e 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -843,6 +843,7 @@ current instance.
 .. automethod:: Mastodon.instance
 .. automethod:: Mastodon.instance_activity
 .. automethod:: Mastodon.instance_peers
+.. automethod:: Mastodon.instance_health
 
 Reading data: Timelines
 -----------------------
diff --git a/mastodon/Mastodon.py b/mastodon/Mastodon.py
index 308c428..f0063e5 100644
--- a/mastodon/Mastodon.py
+++ b/mastodon/Mastodon.py
@@ -654,6 +654,13 @@ class Mastodon:
         """
         return self.__api_request('GET', '/api/v1/instance/peers')
 
+    @api_version("3.0.0", "3.0.0", "3.0.0")
+    def instance_health(self):
+        """
+        Basic health check. Returns True if healthy, False if not.
+        """
+        return self.__api_request('GET', '/health', parse=False).decode("utf-8") == "success"
+
     ###
     # Reading data: Timelines
     ##
diff --git a/tests/cassettes/test_health.yaml b/tests/cassettes/test_health.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ff8e97d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/cassettes/test_health.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+interactions:
+- request:
+    body: null
+    headers:
+      Accept: ['*/*']
+      Accept-Encoding: ['gzip, deflate']
+      Authorization: [Bearer __MASTODON_PY_TEST_ACCESS_TOKEN]
+      Connection: [keep-alive]
+      User-Agent: [python-requests/2.18.4]
+    method: GET
+    uri: http://localhost:3000/health
+  response:
+    body: {string: success}
+    headers:
+      Cache-Control: ['max-age=0, private, must-revalidate']
+      Content-Type: [text/plain; charset=utf-8]
+      Last-Modified: ['Sat, 12 Oct 2019 18:23:49 GMT']
+      Referrer-Policy: [strict-origin-when-cross-origin]
+      Transfer-Encoding: [chunked]
+      Vary: [Accept-Encoding]
+      X-Content-Type-Options: [nosniff]
+      X-Download-Options: [noopen]
+      X-Frame-Options: [SAMEORIGIN]
+      X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies: [none]
+      X-Request-Id: [13fff315-deaa-47c3-9138-d61d02c5063e]
+      X-Runtime: ['0.311003']
+      X-XSS-Protection: [1; mode=block]
+      content-length: ['7']
+    status: {code: 200, message: OK}
+version: 1
diff --git a/tests/test_instance.py b/tests/test_instance.py
index 0eebc57..a304585 100644
--- a/tests/test_instance.py
+++ b/tests/test_instance.py
@@ -32,3 +32,7 @@ def test_low_version(api_low_version):
 @pytest.mark.vcr()
 def test_emoji(api):
     assert len(api.custom_emojis()) == 0
+
+@pytest.mark.vcr()
+def test_health(api):
+    assert api.instance_health() == True