diff --git a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/discovery-client.adoc b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/discovery-client.adoc
index a6438bbf..49b12b6c 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/discovery-client.adoc
+++ b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/discovery-client.adoc
@@ -64,6 +64,16 @@ spring.cloud.kubernetes.discovery.all-namespaces=true
 ----
 ====
 
+To discover service endpoint addresses that are not marked as "ready" by the kubernetes api server, you can set the following property in `application.properties` (default: false):
+
+====
+[source]
+----
+spring.cloud.kubernetes.discovery.include-not-ready-addresses=true
+----
+NOTE: This might be useful when discovering services for monitoring purposes, and would enable inspecting the `/health` endpoint of not-ready service instances.
+====
+
 If, for any reason, you need to disable the `DiscoveryClient`, you can set the following property in `application.properties`:
 
 ====
diff --git a/spring-cloud-kubernetes-commons/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/kubernetes/commons/discovery/KubernetesDiscoveryProperties.java b/spring-cloud-kubernetes-commons/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/kubernetes/commons/discovery/KubernetesDiscoveryProperties.java
index ba338928..f9dfd404 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-kubernetes-commons/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/kubernetes/commons/discovery/KubernetesDiscoveryProperties.java
+++ b/spring-cloud-kubernetes-commons/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/kubernetes/commons/discovery/KubernetesDiscoveryProperties.java
@@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ public class KubernetesDiscoveryProperties {
 	 **/
 	private long cacheLoadingTimeoutSeconds = 60;
 
+	/**
+	 * If endpoint addresses not marked 'ready' by the k8s api server should be
+	 * discovered.
+	 */
+	private boolean includeNotReadyAddresses = false;
+
 	/**
 	 * SpEL expression to filter services AFTER they have been retrieved from the
 	 * Kubernetes API server.
@@ -145,6 +151,14 @@ public class KubernetesDiscoveryProperties {
 		this.allNamespaces = allNamespaces;
 	}
 
+	public boolean isIncludeNotReadyAddresses() {
+		return includeNotReadyAddresses;
+	}
+
+	public void setIncludeNotReadyAddresses(boolean includeNotReadyAddresses) {
+		this.includeNotReadyAddresses = includeNotReadyAddresses;
+	}
+
 	public int getOrder() {
 		return this.order;
 	}
diff --git a/spring-cloud-kubernetes-fabric8-discovery/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/kubernetes/fabric8/discovery/KubernetesDiscoveryClient.java b/spring-cloud-kubernetes-fabric8-discovery/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/kubernetes/fabric8/discovery/KubernetesDiscoveryClient.java
index 39e78e16..472fbd74 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-kubernetes-fabric8-discovery/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/kubernetes/fabric8/discovery/KubernetesDiscoveryClient.java
+++ b/spring-cloud-kubernetes-fabric8-discovery/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/kubernetes/fabric8/discovery/KubernetesDiscoveryClient.java
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ import org.springframework.expression.Expression;
 import org.springframework.expression.spel.standard.SpelExpressionParser;
 import org.springframework.expression.spel.support.SimpleEvaluationContext;
 import org.springframework.util.Assert;
+import org.springframework.util.CollectionUtils;
 import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
 
 import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toMap;
@@ -152,6 +153,15 @@ public class KubernetesDiscoveryClient implements DiscoveryClient {
 				}
 
 				List<EndpointAddress> addresses = s.getAddresses();
+
+				if (this.properties.isIncludeNotReadyAddresses()
+						&& !CollectionUtils.isEmpty(s.getNotReadyAddresses())) {
+					if (addresses == null) {
+						addresses = new ArrayList<EndpointAddress>();
+					}
+					addresses.addAll(s.getNotReadyAddresses());
+				}
+
 				for (EndpointAddress endpointAddress : addresses) {
 					String instanceId = null;
 					if (endpointAddress.getTargetRef() != null) {