diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 5de958a..faa0a9a 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ LABEL maintainer="The Prometheus Authors <prometheus-developers@googlegroups.com
 COPY statsd_exporter /bin/statsd_exporter
 
 EXPOSE      9102 9125 9125/udp
-HEALTHCHECK CMD curl --fail http://localhost:9102/metrics || exit 1
+HEALTHCHECK CMD wget --spider -S "http://localhost:9102/metrics" -T 60 2>&1 || exit 1
 ENTRYPOINT  [ "/bin/statsd_exporter" ]