diff --git a/crates/sui-proxy/MYPKG b/crates/sui-proxy/MYPKG
index 34069932888f9..066035b8f8ab6 100644
--- a/crates/sui-proxy/MYPKG
+++ b/crates/sui-proxy/MYPKG
@@ -5,11 +5,12 @@ rust_binary(
 )
 mypkg(
     name="sui-proxy",
-    version="bf9f49ff50ff1c4b3378319dfb16dd0a",
+    version="77007d47482d76f49ed5326807b6f2a0",
 )
 podman_build(
     name="sui-proxy-image",
     registry="docker//us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/cryptic-bolt-398315/sui-proxy",
     dockerfile="sui_proxy_dockerfile",
     resources=[":sui-proxy"],
-)
+    tag="testnet"
+)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/crates/sui-proxy/src/metrics.rs b/crates/sui-proxy/src/metrics.rs
index 063d7fefd967c..c93d19a1d024c 100644
--- a/crates/sui-proxy/src/metrics.rs
+++ b/crates/sui-proxy/src/metrics.rs
@@ -4,12 +4,33 @@ use axum::{extract::Extension, http::StatusCode, routing::get, Router};
 use mysten_metrics::RegistryService;
 use prometheus::{Registry, TextEncoder};
 use std::net::TcpListener;
+use std::sync::{Arc, RwLock};
 use tower::ServiceBuilder;
 use tower_http::trace::{DefaultOnResponse, TraceLayer};
 use tower_http::LatencyUnit;
 use tracing::Level;
 
 const METRICS_ROUTE: &str = "/metrics";
+const POD_HEALTH_ROUTE: &str = "/pod_health";
+
+type HealthCheckMetrics = Arc<RwLock<HealthCheck>>;
+
+/// Do not access struct members without using HealthCheckMetrics to arc+mutex
+#[derive(Debug)]
+struct HealthCheck {
+    // eg; consumer_operations_submitted{...}
+    consumer_operations_submitted: f64,
+}
+
+/// HealthCheck contains fields we believe are interesting that say whether this pod should be
+/// considered health.  do not use w/o using an arc+mutex
+impl HealthCheck {
+    fn new() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            consumer_operations_submitted: 0.0,
+        }
+    }
+}
 
 // Creates a new http server that has as a sole purpose to expose
 // and endpoint that prometheus agent can use to poll for the metrics.
@@ -19,9 +40,13 @@ pub fn start_prometheus_server(listener: TcpListener) -> RegistryService {
 
     let registry_service = RegistryService::new(registry);
 
+    let pod_health_data = Arc::new(RwLock::new(HealthCheck::new()));
+
     let app = Router::new()
         .route(METRICS_ROUTE, get(metrics))
+        .route(POD_HEALTH_ROUTE, get(pod_health))
         .layer(Extension(registry_service.clone()))
+        .layer(Extension(pod_health_data.clone()))
         .layer(
             ServiceBuilder::new().layer(
                 TraceLayer::new_for_http().on_response(
@@ -42,9 +67,30 @@ pub fn start_prometheus_server(listener: TcpListener) -> RegistryService {
 }
 
 // DO NOT remove this handler, it is not compatible with the mysten_metrics::metric equivalent
-async fn metrics(Extension(registry_service): Extension<RegistryService>) -> (StatusCode, String) {
+async fn metrics(
+    Extension(registry_service): Extension<RegistryService>,
+    Extension(pod_health): Extension<HealthCheckMetrics>,
+) -> (StatusCode, String) {
     let mut metric_families = registry_service.gather_all();
     metric_families.extend(prometheus::gather());
+
+    if let Some(consumer_operations_submitted) = metric_families
+        .iter()
+        .filter_map(|v| {
+            if v.get_name() == "consumer_operations_submitted" {
+                // Expecting one metric, so return the first one, as it is the only one
+                v.get_metric().first().map(|m| m.get_counter().get_value())
+            } else {
+                None
+            }
+        })
+        .next()
+    {
+        pod_health
+            .write()
+            .expect("unable to write to pod health metrics")
+            .consumer_operations_submitted = consumer_operations_submitted;
+    };
     match TextEncoder.encode_to_string(&metric_families) {
         Ok(metrics) => (StatusCode::OK, metrics),
         Err(error) => (
@@ -53,3 +99,20 @@ async fn metrics(Extension(registry_service): Extension<RegistryService>) -> (St
         ),
     }
 }
+
+/// pod_health is called by k8s to know if this service is correctly processing data
+async fn pod_health(Extension(pod_health): Extension<HealthCheckMetrics>) -> (StatusCode, String) {
+    let consumer_operations_submitted = pod_health
+        .read()
+        .expect("unable to read pod health metrics")
+        .consumer_operations_submitted;
+
+    if consumer_operations_submitted > 0.0 {
+        (StatusCode::OK, consumer_operations_submitted.to_string())
+    } else {
+        (
+            StatusCode::SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE,
+            consumer_operations_submitted.to_string(),
+        )
+    }
+}