diff --git a/app/controllers/ConnectController.scala b/app/controllers/ConnectController.scala
index 26c3884a1024f8cbf6a9d73721286773a1379dc9..9c7550e6e2212fc6311f94ee3f997b34adf6298d 100644
--- a/app/controllers/ConnectController.scala
+++ b/app/controllers/ConnectController.scala
@@ -3,16 +3,26 @@ package controllers
 import javax.inject.Inject
 
 import controllers.auth.AuthenticationModule
-import models.{CerebroResponse, Hosts}
+import elastic.ElasticClient
+import models.{CerebroRequest, CerebroResponse, Hosts}
 import play.api.libs.json.{JsArray, JsString}
 import play.api.mvc.Controller
 
+import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext.Implicits.global
 
 class ConnectController @Inject()(val authentication: AuthenticationModule,
+                                  elastic: ElasticClient,
                                   hosts: Hosts) extends Controller with AuthSupport {
 
-  def index = AuthAction(authentication) { request =>
+  def index = AuthAction(authentication) { _ =>
     CerebroResponse(200, JsArray(hosts.getHostNames().map(JsString(_))))
   }
 
+  def connect = AuthAction(authentication).async(parse.json) { request =>
+    val req = CerebroRequest(request, hosts)
+    elastic.executeRequest("GET", "_cluster/health", None, req.target).map {
+      response => CerebroResponse(response.status, response.body)
+    }
+  }
+
 }
diff --git a/conf/routes b/conf/routes
index 5b5838aa8b466b925ffdd89f272d1369528af942..042f3a3637408edeb51b302e86f101e4b54adaa3 100644
--- a/conf/routes
+++ b/conf/routes
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ POST        /index_settings/update                    controllers.IndexSettingsC
 
 # Connect module
 GET         /connect/hosts                            controllers.ConnectController.index
+POST        /connect                                  controllers.ConnectController.connect
 
 # Repositories module
 POST        /repositories                             controllers.RepositoriesController.get