diff --git a/.github/lychee.toml b/.github/lychee.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a228cd084361
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/lychee.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+include-fragments = true
+
+accept = ["200..=299", "429"]
+
+exclude  = [
+    "^http(s)?://localhost",
+    "^http(s)?://example.com"
+]
+
+# better to be safe and avoid failures
+max-retries = 6
diff --git a/.github/workflows/changelog.yml b/.github/workflows/changelog.yml
index f2966c9065ff..50efb4040a6d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/changelog.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/changelog.yml
@@ -84,14 +84,10 @@ jobs:
       - name: Render .chloggen changelog entries
         if: ${{ !contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'dependencies') && !contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'Skip Changelog') && !contains(github.event.pull_request.title, '[chore]')}}
         run: make chlog-preview > changelog_preview.md
-      - name: Install markdown-link-check
+      - name: Link Checker
         if: ${{ !contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'dependencies') && !contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'Skip Changelog') && !contains(github.event.pull_request.title, '[chore]')}}
-        run: npm install -g markdown-link-check@${{ env.MD_LINK_CHECK_VERSION }}
-      - name: Run markdown-link-check
-        if: ${{ !contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'dependencies') && !contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'Skip Changelog') && !contains(github.event.pull_request.title, '[chore]')}}
-        run: |
-          markdown-link-check \
-            --verbose \
-            --config .github/workflows/check_links_config.json \
-            changelog_preview.md \
-            || { echo "Check that anchor links are lowercase"; exit 1; }
+        id: lychee
+        uses: lycheeverse/lychee-action@f796c8b7d468feb9b8c0a46da3fac0af6874d374
+        with:
+          args: "--verbose --no-progress ./changelog_preview.md --config .github/lychee.toml"
+          failIfEmpty: false
diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-links.yaml b/.github/workflows/check-links.yaml
index 69fe83dd18c6..e048c17d1f37 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/check-links.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check-links.yaml
@@ -9,10 +9,6 @@ concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
-env:
-  # renovate: datasource=github-releases depName=tcort/markdown-link-check
-  MD_LINK_CHECK_VERSION: "3.12.2"
-
 jobs:
   changedfiles:
     name: changed files
@@ -43,18 +39,9 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
-      - name: Install markdown-link-check
-        run: npm install -g markdown-link-check@${{ env.MD_LINK_CHECK_VERSION }}
-      - name: Run markdown-link-check
-        run: |
-          if [ -n "${{ needs.changedfiles.outputs.yaml_files }}" ]; then
-            md=$(find . -type f -name "*.md")
-          else
-            md="${{ needs.changedfiles.outputs.md_files }}"
-          fi
 
-          markdown-link-check \
-            --verbose \
-            --config .github/workflows/check_links_config.json \
-            $md \
-            || { echo "Check that anchor links are lowercase"; exit 1; }
+      - name: Link Checker
+        id: lychee
+        uses: lycheeverse/lychee-action@f796c8b7d468feb9b8c0a46da3fac0af6874d374
+        with:
+          args: "--verbose --no-progress ${{needs.changedfiles.outputs.md_files}} ${{needs.changedfiles.outputs.yaml_files}} --config .github/lychee.toml"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/check_links_config.json b/.github/workflows/check_links_config.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 299206c09254..000000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/check_links_config.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "ignorePatterns": [
-        {
-            "pattern": "http(s)?://\\d+\\.\\d+\\.\\d+\\.\\d+"
-        },
-        {
-            "pattern": "http(s)?://localhost"
-        },
-        {
-            "pattern": "http(s)?://example.com"
-        },
-        {
-            "pattern": "^#"
-        },
-        {
-            "pattern": "https://blogs\\.oracle\\.com/developers/post/connecting-a-go-application-to-oracle-database"
-        }
-    ],
-    "aliveStatusCodes": [429, 200]
-}
diff --git a/Makefile.Common b/Makefile.Common
index 386dcf760dd7..81b7a0a3ed5a 100644
--- a/Makefile.Common
+++ b/Makefile.Common
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ GOOS=$(shell $(GOCMD) env GOOS)
 GOARCH=$(shell $(GOCMD) env GOARCH)
 GOTESTARCH?=$(GOARCH)
 
+DOCKERCMD ?= docker
+
 # In order to help reduce toil related to managing tooling for the open telemetry collector
 # this section of the makefile looks at only requiring command definitions to be defined
 # as part of $(TOOLS_MOD_DIR)/tools.go, following the existing practice.
@@ -206,9 +208,15 @@ checklicense: $(ADDLICENSE)
 
 .PHONY: checklinks
 checklinks:
-	command -v $(MDLINKCHECK) >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "$(MDLINKCHECK) not installed. Run 'npm install -g markdown-link-check'"; exit 1; }
-	find . -name \*.md -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 \
-		$(MDLINKCHECK) -q -c $(SRC_ROOT)/.github/workflows/check_links_config.json || true
+	command -v $(DOCKERCMD) >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "$(DOCKERCMD) not installed. Install before continuing"; exit 1; }
+	$(DOCKERCMD) run -w /home/repo --rm \
+		--mount 'type=bind,source='$(PWD)',target=/home/repo' \
+		--mount 'type=bind,source='$(SRC_ROOT)/.github/lychee.toml',target=/lychee.toml' \
+		lycheeverse/lychee \
+		--config /lychee.toml \
+		--root-dir /home/repo \
+		-v \
+		--no-progress './**/*.md'
 
 .PHONY: fmt
 fmt: $(GOFUMPT) $(GOIMPORTS)