diff --git a/backend/src/app.ts b/backend/src/app.ts
index 1e1bbb593..000fa647d 100644
--- a/backend/src/app.ts
+++ b/backend/src/app.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
 const { patchRouterParam } = require('./utils/patchAsyncRoutes');
 
-import express from 'express';
+import express, { Request, Response } from 'express';
 import helmet from 'helmet';
 import cors from 'cors';
 import cookieParser from 'cookie-parser';
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ import {
   apiKeyData as v2APIKeyDataRouter,
 } from './routes/v2';
 
+import { healthCheck } from './routes/status';
+
 import { getLogger } from './utils/logger';
 import { RouteNotFoundError } from './utils/errors';
 import { requestErrorHandler } from './middleware/requestErrorHandler';
@@ -101,6 +103,10 @@ app.use('/api/v2/secret', v2SecretRouter);
 app.use('/api/v2/service-token', v2ServiceTokenDataRouter);
 app.use('/api/v2/api-key-data', v2APIKeyDataRouter);
 
+
+// Server status
+app.use('/api', healthCheck)
+
 //* Handle unrouted requests and respond with proper error message as well as status code
 app.use((req, res, next) => {
   if (res.headersSent) return next();
diff --git a/backend/src/helpers/rateLimiter.ts b/backend/src/helpers/rateLimiter.ts
index 6171559af..55ac3be0c 100644
--- a/backend/src/helpers/rateLimiter.ts
+++ b/backend/src/helpers/rateLimiter.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ const apiLimiter = rateLimit({
   max: 450,
   standardHeaders: true,
   legacyHeaders: false,
-  skip: (request) => request.path === '/healthcheck'
+  skip: (request) => {
+    return request.path === '/healthcheck' || request.path === '/api/status'
+  }
 });
 
 // 5 requests per hour
diff --git a/backend/src/routes/status/index.ts b/backend/src/routes/status/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..815ceab17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/src/routes/status/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+import healthCheck from './healthCheck';
+
+export {
+  healthCheck
+}
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diff --git a/backend/src/routes/status/status.ts b/backend/src/routes/status/status.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4ab82cca9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/src/routes/status/status.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+import express, { Request, Response } from 'express';
+
+const router = express.Router();
+
+router.get(
+  '/status',
+  (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+    res.status(200).json({
+      date: new Date(),
+      message: 'Ok',
+    })
+  }
+);
+
+export default router
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