diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cbd02da4..83653282 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -145,8 +145,8 @@ Keep in mind that some versions of Minecraft server can't work on the newest ver
 
 ## Healthcheck
 
-This image contains [Dinnerbone's mcstatus](https://github.com/Dinnerbone/mcstatus) and uses
-its `ping` command to continually check on the container's. That can be observed
+This image contains [mc-monitor](https://github.com/itzg/mc-monitor) and uses
+its `status` command to continually check on the container's. That can be observed
 from the `STATUS` column of `docker ps`
 
 ```
@@ -161,16 +161,6 @@ You can also query the container's health in a script friendly way:
 healthy
 ```
 
-Finally, since `mcstatus` is on the `PATH` you can exec into the container
-and use mcstatus directly and invoke any of its other commands:
-
-```
-> docker exec mc mcstatus localhost status
-version: v1.12 (protocol 335)
-description: "{u'text': u'A Minecraft Server Powered by Docker'}"
-players: 0/20 No players online
-```
-
 ## Deployment Templates and Examples
 
 ### Helm Charts
diff --git a/mcstatus b/mcstatus
index 89c62d78..e7e314b8 100755
--- a/mcstatus
+++ b/mcstatus
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+echo "WARNING: mcstatus is deprecated; calling mc-monitor instead"
+
 ##### mcstatus shim for mc-monitor
 # handles translating calls to
 #   mcstatus (host:port) (command)