diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 711ef3b7..be14d25a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1076,6 +1076,10 @@ Some older versions (pre-1.14) of Spigot required `--noconsole` to be passed whe
 Some older servers get confused and think that the GUI interface is enabled. You can explicitly
 disable that by passing `-e GUI=FALSE`.
 
+### Disable healthcheck via environment variable
+
+Some orchestration systems, such as Portainer, don't allow for disabling the default `HEALTHCHECK` declared by this image. In those cases you can approximate the disabling of healthchecks by setting the environment variable `DISABLE_HEALTHCHECK` to `true`.
+
 ## Running on RaspberryPi
 
 To run this image on a RaspberryPi 3 B+, 4, or newer, use the image tag
diff --git a/health.sh b/health.sh
index 0ce34be1..e2ad7e72 100644
--- a/health.sh
+++ b/health.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@
 
 . ${SCRIPTS:-/}start-utils
 
-if isTrue "${ENABLE_AUTOPAUSE}" && [[ "$( ps -a -o stat,comm | grep 'java' | awk '{ print $1 }')" =~ ^T.*$ ]]; then
+if isTrue "${DISABLE_HEALTHCHECK}"; then
+  echo "Healthcheck disabled"
+  exit 0
+elif isTrue "${ENABLE_AUTOPAUSE}" && [[ "$( ps -a -o stat,comm | grep 'java' | awk '{ print $1 }')" =~ ^T.*$ ]]; then
   echo "Java process suspended by Autopause function"
   exit 0
 else