diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/server.py b/python/sglang/srt/server.py
index 997b805cc..55271c235 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/server.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/server.py
@@ -89,6 +89,23 @@ app = FastAPI()
 tokenizer_manager = None
 
 
+@app.get("/v1/health")
+async def health(request: Request) -> Response:
+    """
+    Generate 1 token to verify the health of the inference service.
+    """
+    gri = GenerateReqInput(
+        text="s", sampling_params={"max_new_tokens": 1, "temperature": 0.7}
+    )
+    try:
+        async for _ in tokenizer_manager.generate_request(gri, request):
+            break
+        return Response(status_code=200)
+    except Exception as e:
+        logger.exception(e)
+        return Response(status_code=503)
+
+
 @app.get("/health")
 async def health() -> Response:
     """Health check."""