diff --git a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/plugins/uptime.nix b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/plugins/uptime.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2f26bc26ba44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/plugins/uptime.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, autoreconfHook }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "check-uptime-${version}";
+  version = "20161112";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner  = "madrisan";
+    repo   = "nagios-plugins-uptime";
+    rev    = "51822dacd1d404b3eabf3b4984c64b2475ed6f3b";
+    sha256 = "18q9ibzqn97dsyr9xs3w9mqk80nmmfw3kcjidrdsj542amlsycyk";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook ];
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  postInstall = "ln -sr $out/libexec $out/bin";
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Uptime check plugin for Sensu/Nagios/others";
+    homepage    = https://github.com/madrisan/nagios-plugins-uptime;
+    license     = licenses.gpl3;
+    maintainer  = with maintainers; [ peterhoeg ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index a31aefbab694..556bb695dc27 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -19231,6 +19231,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   hy = callPackage ../development/interpreters/hy {};
 
+  check-uptime = callPackage ../servers/monitoring/plugins/uptime.nix { };
+
   ghc-standalone-archive = callPackage ../os-specific/darwin/ghc-standalone-archive { inherit (darwin) cctools; };
 
   chrome-gnome-shell = callPackage  ../desktops/gnome-3/extensions/chrome-gnome-shell {};