diff --git a/lms/djangoapps/dashboard/views.py b/lms/djangoapps/dashboard/views.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ba6c8ca152
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lms/djangoapps/dashboard/views.py
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Create your views here.
+import json
+from datetime import datetime
+from django.http import HttpResponse, Http404
+
+def dictfetchall(cursor):
+    '''Returns all rows from a cursor as a dict.
+    Borrowed from Django documentation'''
+    desc = cursor.description
+    return [
+        dict(zip([col[0] for col in desc], row))
+        for row in cursor.fetchall()
+    ]
+
+def dashboard(request):
+    """
+    Simple view that a loadbalancer can check to verify that the app is up
+    """
+    if not request.user.is_staff:
+        raise Http404
+
+    query = "select count(user_id) as students, course_id from student_courseenrollment group by course_id order by students desc"
+
+    from django.db import connection
+    cursor = connection.cursor()
+    results = dictfetchall(cursor.execute(query))
+    
+
+    return HttpResponse(json.dumps(results, indent=4))
diff --git a/lms/urls.py b/lms/urls.py
index 0785cd96d0..3667397c8c 100644
--- a/lms/urls.py
+++ b/lms/urls.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ if settings.DEBUG:
 urlpatterns = ('',
     url(r'^$', 'student.views.index', name="root"), # Main marketing page, or redirect to courseware
     url(r'^dashboard$', 'student.views.dashboard', name="dashboard"),
+    url(r'^admin_dashboard$', 'dashboard.views.dashboard'),
     
     url(r'^change_email$', 'student.views.change_email_request'),
     url(r'^email_confirm/(?P<key>[^/]*)$', 'student.views.confirm_email_change'),