diff --git a/lib/cartodb/monitoring/health_check.js b/lib/cartodb/monitoring/health_check.js
index f59fbfb1..1fca02b8 100644
--- a/lib/cartodb/monitoring/health_check.js
+++ b/lib/cartodb/monitoring/health_check.js
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-var dot = require('dot');
 var fs = require('fs');
-var path = require('path');
 var step = require('step');
 
 function HealthCheck(metadataBackend, tilelive) {
@@ -11,24 +9,9 @@ function HealthCheck(metadataBackend, tilelive) {
 module.exports = HealthCheck;
 
 
-var mapnikOptions = {
-    query: {
-        metatile: 1,
-        poolSize: 4,
-        bufferSize: 64
-    },
-    protocol: 'mapnik:',
-    slashes: true,
-    xml: null
-};
-
-var xmlTemplate = dot.template(fs.readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, 'map-config.xml'), 'utf-8'));
-
 HealthCheck.prototype.check = function(config, callback) {
 
-    var self = this,
-        startTime,
-        result = {
+    var result = {
             redis: {
                 ok: false
             },
@@ -39,7 +22,6 @@ HealthCheck.prototype.check = function(config, callback) {
                 ok: false
             }
         };
-    var mapnikXmlParams = config;
 
     step(
         function getManualDisable() {
@@ -56,50 +38,7 @@ HealthCheck.prototype.check = function(config, callback) {
             throw err;
           }
         },
-        function getDBParams(err) {
-            if (err) {
-              throw err;
-            }
-            startTime = Date.now();
-            self.metadataBackend.getAllUserDBParams(config.username, this);
-        },
-        function loadMapnik(err, dbParams) {
-            if (err) {
-                throw err;
-            }
-            result.redis = {
-                ok: !err,
-                elapsed: Date.now() - startTime,
-                size: Object.keys(dbParams).length
-            };
-            mapnikOptions.xml = xmlTemplate(mapnikXmlParams);
-
-            startTime = Date.now();
-            self.tilelive.load(mapnikOptions, this);
-        },
-        function getTile(err, source) {
-            if (err) {
-                throw err;
-            }
-
-            result.mapnik = {
-                ok: !err,
-                elapsed: Date.now() - startTime
-            };
-
-            startTime = Date.now();
-            source.getTile(config.z, config.x, config.y, this);
-        },
-        function handleTile(err, tile) {
-            result.tile = {
-                ok: !err
-            };
-
-            if (tile) {
-                result.tile.elapsed = Date.now() - startTime;
-                result.tile.size = tile.length;
-            }
-
+        function handleResult(err) {
             callback(err, result);
         }
     );
diff --git a/test/acceptance/health_check.js b/test/acceptance/health_check.js
index 890b559e..682deedd 100644
--- a/test/acceptance/health_check.js
+++ b/test/acceptance/health_check.js
@@ -51,31 +51,6 @@ suite('health checks', function () {
         );
     });
 
-    test('fails for invalid user because it is not in redis', function (done) {
-        resetHealthConfig();
-
-        global.environment.health.username = 'invalid';
-
-        assert.response(server,
-            healthCheckRequest,
-            {
-                status: 503
-            },
-            function (res, err) {
-                assert.ok(!err);
-
-                var parsed = JSON.parse(res.body);
-
-                assert.equal(parsed.enabled, true);
-                assert.equal(parsed.ok, false);
-
-                assert.equal(parsed.result.redis.ok, false);
-
-                done();
-            }
-        );
-    });
-
     test('error if disabled file exists', function(done) {
       var fs = require('fs');