diff --git a/kubernetes/meta/collectd.yml b/kubernetes/meta/collectd.yml
index 148099e..8d1b5fa 100644
--- a/kubernetes/meta/collectd.yml
+++ b/kubernetes/meta/collectd.yml
@@ -92,3 +92,21 @@
         match: confd .*/etc/calico/confd
 {%- endif %}
 {%- endif %}
+
+{%- if pool.get('enabled', False) %}
+remote_plugin:
+  collectd_http_check:
+   polling_interval: 30
+   url:
+     apiserver:
+       expected_code: 200
+       expected_content: ok
+       # Do not verify the certificate because urllib3 doesn't check for IP addresses in
+       # alternative names DNS entries.
+       # https://github.com/shazow/urllib3/issues/258
+       verify: false
+       client_cert: /etc/kubernetes/ssl/kubelet-client.crt
+       client_key: /etc/kubernetes/ssl/kubelet-client.key
+       url: https://{{ pool.apiserver.host }}:{{ pool.apiserver.port|default('443') }}/healthz
+       metric_name: k8s_service_health_vip
+{%- endif %}
diff --git a/kubernetes/meta/heka.yml b/kubernetes/meta/heka.yml
index 476156b..d3390f1 100644
--- a/kubernetes/meta/heka.yml
+++ b/kubernetes/meta/heka.yml
@@ -274,8 +274,42 @@
 {%- endif %}
 
 {%- if master.get('enabled', False) %}
+remote_collector:
+  trigger:
+    k8s-apiserver_vip:
+      description: 'K8s apiserver is down'
+      severity: down
+      rules:
+      - metric: k8s_service_health_vip
+        field:
+          service: apiserver
+        relational_operator: '=='
+        threshold: 0
+        window: 60
+        periods: 0
+        function: last
+  alarm:
+    k8s-apiserver-vip:
+      alerting: enabled
+      triggers:
+      - k8s-apiserver_vip
+      dimension:
+        service: k8s-apiserver-vip
+{%- endif %}
+
+{%- if master.get('enabled', False) %}
 aggregator:
   alarm_cluster:
+    k8s-apiserver_vip:
+      policy: highest_severity
+      alerting: enabled
+      match:
+        service: k8s-apiserver-vip
+      members:
+      - k8s-apiserver-vip
+      dimension:
+        service: k8s-master
+        nagios_host: 01-service-clusters
     {%- for kube_service in kube_services %}
     k8s-{{ kube_service }}_endpoint:
       policy: availability_of_members
@@ -343,6 +377,7 @@
       - k8s-apiserver_endpoint
       - k8s-scheduler_endpoint
       - k8s-controller-manager_endpoint
+      - k8s-apiserver_vip
       dimension:
         cluster_name: k8s-master
         nagios_host: 00-top-clusters