Django: how to disable the HTTP_HOST check on a specific endpoint? [duplicate]

I defined a super simple healthcheck endpoint in my Django app (urls.py) to be used in a docker compose environment, like:

services: django: build: context: . dockerfile: ./compose/production/django/Dockerfile depends_on: db: condition: service_healthy env_file: - ./.envs/.production/.django command: /start healthcheck: test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "http://localhost:5000/healthcheck/"] start_period: 20s interval: 15s timeout: 10s retries: 5 

start.sh

#!/bin/bash set -o errexit set -o pipefail set -o nounset python /app/manage.py collectstatic --noinput exec /usr/local/bin/gunicorn config.asgi --bind 0.0.0.0:5000 --chdir=/app -k uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker 

# ... various imports def healthcheck(): return HttpResponse() urlpatterns = [ # Django Admin, use {% url 'admin:index' %} path(settings.ADMIN_URL, admin.site.urls), # User management path("accounts/", include("allauth.urls")), # Hijack path("hijack/", include("hijack.urls")), # Healthcheck path("healthcheck/", healthcheck, name="healthcheck"), # Media files *static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT), ] if settings.DEBUG: # Static file serving when using Gunicorn + Uvicorn for local web socket development urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns() 

In a local environment there are no issues since localhost is inside the ALLOWED_HOSTS configuration variable. But if I'm in a production environment and adding "localhost" to the allowed hosts list doesn't seem like a good practice.

Since the healthcheck endpoint is only used internally is there a way to resolve this? On the top of my head I'm thinking of something to skip this check just for that endpoint but I don't know how or if it is even possible. Maybe there are even other better solutions?