diff --git a/docs/deployment.rst b/docs/deployment.rst
index 0203cfcf9..df6a96f43 100644
--- a/docs/deployment.rst
+++ b/docs/deployment.rst
@@ -75,4 +75,7 @@ widely different operational characteristics of HTTP and WebSocket.
 
 ``websockets`` provide minimal support for responding to HTTP requests with
 the :meth:`~server.WebSocketServerProtocol.process_request()` hook. Typical
-use cases include health checks.
+use cases include health checks. Here's an example:
+
+.. literalinclude:: ../example/health_check_server.py
+    :emphasize-lines: 7-11,17-18
diff --git a/example/health_check_server.py b/example/health_check_server.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..13afacdaa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/example/health_check_server.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import asyncio
+import http
+import websockets
+
+class ServerProtocol(websockets.WebSocketServerProtocol):
+
+    async def process_request(self, path, request_headers):
+        if path == '/__health__/':
+            return http.HTTPStatus.OK, [], b'OK\n'
+
+async def echo(websocket, path):
+    async for message in websocket:
+        await websocket.send(message)
+
+start_server = websockets.serve(
+    echo, 'localhost', 8765, create_protocol=ServerProtocol)
+
+asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(start_server)
+asyncio.get_event_loop().run_forever()