diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4411c6fe..e7e9a846 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -42,6 +42,12 @@
 
 ### Added
 
+- `GET /healthz` on the webhook source's address. It answers 200 while the
+  source admits deliveries and 503 once it is closing, needs no signature,
+  and is not counted in `webhook_requests_total`. A platform that routes one
+  port to a service checks health on that port, and the pipeline's `/healthz`
+  is on the metrics listener, so a webhook pipeline on Render had no health
+  check at all: it was marked live because its port was open.
 - `sqlflow rollup` measures: `numeric: double` on a `sum`, and a `last` type.
   Every sum was cast to `bigint`, so a fractional value was rounded to an
   integer at every grain. `last` keeps the value of the bucket's latest finer
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 410df47c..eec421dd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -820,6 +820,15 @@ body bound applies before the body is read and before the signature is
 checked, so an unsigned oversized request never holds memory past it. The
 default is 25 MiB, GitHub's payload ceiling.
 
+`GET /healthz` on the same address answers `{"status":"ok"}` while the source
+admits deliveries, and 503 once it is closing. It needs no signature and reads
+no body, so a platform's health check or an uptime monitor can call it, and
+`HEAD` works too. A queue that is full is backpressure, not failure, and still
+answers 200. Health checks are not counted in `webhook_requests_total`, which
+counts deliveries. The pipeline's own `/healthz`, on the metrics listener, is
+unchanged: this one exists because a platform that routes a single port to a
+service, as Render does, checks health on that port.
+
 The listener holds at most `max_connections` open connections; past that, a
 new connection waits in the kernel backlog until one closes. Three fixed
 timeouts release a slot: 10s for a connection to send its request headers,
diff --git a/internal/webhook/metrics_test.go b/internal/webhook/metrics_test.go
index 7cdfb7cc..affe1221 100644
--- a/internal/webhook/metrics_test.go
+++ b/internal/webhook/metrics_test.go
@@ -151,3 +151,33 @@ func TestSinkRetry_MetricsNoProviderRecordsNothing(t *testing.T) {
 	defer resp.Body.Close()
 	assert.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, resp.StatusCode)
 }
+
+// webhook_requests_total is how an operator counts deliveries. A platform
+// checks health every few seconds, which would bury them under 200s that
+// delivered nothing.
+func TestSinkRetry_MetricsDoNotCountHealthChecks(t *testing.T) {
+	coverage.Covers(t, "sink.retry")
+	reader := sdkmetric.NewManualReader()
+	s, err := NewSource(WithMeterProvider(sdkmetric.NewMeterProvider(sdkmetric.WithReader(reader))))
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	defer s.Close()
+	drain(s)
+
+	srv := httptest.NewServer(s.Handler())
+	defer srv.Close()
+
+	for range 5 {
+		resp, err := http.Get(srv.URL + "/healthz")
+		assert.NoError(t, err)
+		resp.Body.Close()
+	}
+	resp := post(t, srv.URL+"/events", []byte(`{"a":1}`), "", "")
+	resp.Body.Close()
+
+	sum := collect(t, reader, "webhook_requests_total").Data.(metricdata.Sum[int64])
+	var total int64
+	for _, dp := range sum.DataPoints {
+		total += dp.Value
+	}
+	assert.Equal(t, int64(1), total)
+}
diff --git a/internal/webhook/source.go b/internal/webhook/source.go
index e894ad5a..d12767a3 100644
--- a/internal/webhook/source.go
+++ b/internal/webhook/source.go
@@ -192,9 +192,45 @@ func (s *Source) MaxConnections() int {
 func (s *Source) Handler() http.Handler {
 	mux := http.NewServeMux()
 	mux.HandleFunc("POST /events", s.receiveEvents)
+
+	root := http.NewServeMux()
+	// Outside the metrics middleware. webhook_requests_total is how an
+	// operator counts deliveries, and a platform checks health every few
+	// seconds: counted, the checks would bury them under 200s that delivered
+	// nothing. Registered for every method, because beside the catch-all
+	// below a GET-only pattern would hand POST /healthz to the delivery mux,
+	// which answers 404 for a path that exists.
+	root.HandleFunc("/healthz", s.healthz)
 	// Wrapped rather than applied per route, so unrouted requests are counted
 	// as they are by the Python middleware.
-	return s.metrics.middleware(mux)
+	root.Handle("/", s.metrics.middleware(mux))
+	return root
+}
+
+// healthz says whether a delivery sent now would be admitted. It is on the
+// webhook's own listener because a platform routes one port to a service and
+// checks health on that port: the pipeline's /healthz is on the metrics
+// listener, which a platform that exposes only this one cannot reach.
+//
+// It reads no body and checks no signature, since a health check has neither,
+// and it admits nothing to the pipeline. It does not wait on the queue: a full
+// queue is backpressure, and a platform that reads busy as dead restarts an
+// instance while it holds a sender's event. A closing source answers 503, as
+// it does to a delivery, so the platform stops routing to it.
+func (s *Source) healthz(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	// Monitors send HEAD, and the status line is the whole answer. net/http
+	// drops the body of a HEAD response.
+	if r.Method != http.MethodGet && r.Method != http.MethodHead {
+		w.Header().Set("Allow", "GET, HEAD")
+		writeJSON(w, http.StatusMethodNotAllowed, `{"detail":"Method Not Allowed"}`)
+		return
+	}
+	select {
+	case <-s.done:
+		writeJSON(w, http.StatusServiceUnavailable, `{"detail":"Source is closed"}`)
+	default:
+		writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, `{"status":"ok"}`)
+	}
 }
 
 // Addr reports the bound address, which only differs from the configured one
diff --git a/internal/webhook/source_test.go b/internal/webhook/source_test.go
index 0b7079ca..f0511bd6 100644
--- a/internal/webhook/source_test.go
+++ b/internal/webhook/source_test.go
@@ -225,7 +225,9 @@ func TestSourceWebhook_CloseReleasesBlockedRequest(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestSourceWebhook_RoutesOnlyPostEvents(t *testing.T) {
+// Deliveries are POST /events and nothing else. /healthz is the one other
+// route, and has its own tests.
+func TestSourceWebhook_RefusesOtherMethodsAndPaths(t *testing.T) {
 	coverage.Covers(t, "source.webhook")
 	s, err := NewSource()
 	assert.NoError(t, err)
@@ -506,3 +508,86 @@ func TestSourceWebhook_DefaultsMaxConnectionsTo64(t *testing.T) {
 	defer s.Close()
 	assert.Equal(t, 64, s.MaxConnections())
 }
+
+// A platform's health check and an uptime monitor have no secret, and must not
+// need one: the route reads no body and admits nothing to the pipeline.
+func TestSourceWebhook_HealthzAnswersWithoutASignature(t *testing.T) {
+	coverage.Covers(t, "source.webhook")
+	s, err := NewSource(WithHMAC(&HMAC{Header: "X-HMAC-Signature", SigKey: "sha256", Secret: "test_secret"}))
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	defer s.Close()
+
+	srv := httptest.NewServer(s.Handler())
+	defer srv.Close()
+
+	resp, err := http.Get(srv.URL + "/healthz")
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, resp.StatusCode)
+	assert.Equal(t, "application/json", resp.Header.Get("Content-Type"))
+	assert.Equal(t, `{"status":"ok"}`, readBody(t, resp))
+
+	// Monitors send HEAD, and the status line is the whole answer.
+	resp, err = http.Head(srv.URL + "/healthz")
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	resp.Body.Close()
+	assert.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, resp.StatusCode)
+
+	resp = post(t, srv.URL+"/healthz", []byte("{}"), "", "")
+	resp.Body.Close()
+	assert.Equal(t, http.StatusMethodNotAllowed, resp.StatusCode)
+
+	// The route opens nothing else: an unsigned delivery is still refused.
+	resp = post(t, srv.URL+"/events", []byte("{}"), "", "")
+	resp.Body.Close()
+	assert.Equal(t, http.StatusBadRequest, resp.StatusCode)
+}
+
+// Healthy means deliveries are being admitted. A source that is closing
+// answers 503 to a delivery, so it says the same to the check, and the
+// platform stops routing to an instance that would refuse what it was sent.
+func TestSourceWebhook_HealthzReportsAClosingSource(t *testing.T) {
+	coverage.Covers(t, "source.webhook")
+	s, err := NewSource()
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+	srv := httptest.NewServer(s.Handler())
+	defer srv.Close()
+
+	assert.NoError(t, s.Close())
+
+	resp, err := http.Get(srv.URL + "/healthz")
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, http.StatusServiceUnavailable, resp.StatusCode)
+	assert.Equal(t, `{"detail":"Source is closed"}`, readBody(t, resp))
+}
+
+// A queue that is full is backpressure, not failure. The check must answer
+// while a delivery waits on the pipeline, or a platform restarts an instance
+// for being busy, at the moment it is holding a sender's event.
+func TestSourceWebhook_HealthzAnswersWhileADeliveryWaits(t *testing.T) {
+	coverage.Covers(t, "source.webhook")
+	s, err := NewSource()
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+	srv := httptest.NewServer(s.Handler())
+	// The source closes first, which releases the delivery left waiting.
+	// The server's Close waits for that delivery and would never return.
+	defer srv.Close()
+	defer s.Close()
+
+	resp := post(t, srv.URL+"/events", []byte("first"), "", "")
+	resp.Body.Close()
+	go func() {
+		if resp, err := http.Post(srv.URL+"/events", "application/json", strings.NewReader("second")); err == nil {
+			resp.Body.Close()
+		}
+	}()
+	// Give the second delivery time to reach the full queue.
+	time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
+
+	client := &http.Client{Timeout: 2 * time.Second}
+	resp, err = client.Get(srv.URL + "/healthz")
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	resp.Body.Close()
+	assert.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, resp.StatusCode)
+}