The invention provides a health check method and a heath check system for an application program. The health check method for the application program comprises the steps of obtaining an application program list associated with a DEA (droplet execution agent) assembly from a CF (cloud foundry) platform; judging whether the application program in the application program list is in a running state or not; if the application program is in the running state, visiting a heath check interface of the application program through the DEA assembly to start the current heath check for the application program, and generating a health check result; feeding back the heath check result to the DEA assembly to allow the DEA assembly to execute a corresponding operation for the application program according to the health check result. According to the technical scheme, the load balance of the heath check for the application program can be effectively realized; the detection period can be shortened; the health check interaction process can be simplified; the operation and maintenance workload can be reduced; and meanwhile, misjudgment on the health states of the application program can be effectively avoided, so that the user experience is improved consequently.