diff --git a/test/e2e/pods.go b/test/e2e/pods.go
index 403030cade1..bf28677edb8 100644
--- a/test/e2e/pods.go
+++ b/test/e2e/pods.go
@@ -520,6 +520,39 @@ var _ = Describe("Pods", func() {
 		}, true)
 	})
 
+	It("should *not* be restarted with a /healthz http liveness probe", func() {
+		runLivenessTest(framework.Client, framework.Namespace.Name, &api.Pod{
+			ObjectMeta: api.ObjectMeta{
+				Name:   "liveness-http",
+				Labels: map[string]string{"test": "liveness"},
+			},
+			Spec: api.PodSpec{
+				Containers: []api.Container{
+					{
+						Name:  "liveness",
+						Image: "gcr.io/google_containers/nettest:1.6",
+						// These args are garbage but the image will exit if they're not there
+						// we just care about /read serving a 200, which it always does.
+						Args: []string{
+							"-service=liveness-http",
+							"-peers=1",
+							"-namespace=" + framework.Namespace.Name},
+						Ports: []api.ContainerPort{{ContainerPort: 8080}},
+						LivenessProbe: &api.Probe{
+							Handler: api.Handler{
+								HTTPGet: &api.HTTPGetAction{
+									Path: "/read",
+									Port: util.NewIntOrStringFromInt(8080),
+								},
+							},
+							InitialDelaySeconds: 15,
+						},
+					},
+				},
+			},
+		}, false)
+	})
+
 	// The following tests for remote command execution and port forwarding are
 	// commented out because the GCE environment does not currently have nsenter
 	// in the kubelet's PATH, nor does it have socat installed. Once we figure