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diff --git a/plugin/erratic/README.md b/plugin/erratic/README.md
index f606eef42..3f3f75d3d 100644
--- a/plugin/erratic/README.md
+++ b/plugin/erratic/README.md
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ erratic {
 * `delay`: delay 1 per **AMOUNT** of queries for **DURATION**, the default for **AMOUNT** is 2 and
   the default for **DURATION** is 100ms.
 
+## Health
+
+This plugin implements dynamic health checking. For every dropped query it turns unhealthy.
+
 ## Examples
 
 ~~~ corefile
diff --git a/plugin/erratic/health.go b/plugin/erratic/health.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1d9625e16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugin/erratic/health.go
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+package erratic
+
+import (
+	"sync/atomic"
+)
+
+// Health implements the health.Healther interface.
+func (e *Erratic) Health() bool {
+	q := atomic.LoadUint64(&e.q)
+	if e.drop > 0 && q%e.drop == 0 {
+		return false
+	}
+	return true
+}