diff --git a/modules/github_integration/app/workers/cron/check_deploy_status_job.rb b/modules/github_integration/app/workers/cron/check_deploy_status_job.rb
index 1372811aa5d0..4a55c2e00938 100644
--- a/modules/github_integration/app/workers/cron/check_deploy_status_job.rb
+++ b/modules/github_integration/app/workers/cron/check_deploy_status_job.rb
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ def openproject_core_sha(host, api_token)
     end
 
     def introspection_request(host, api_token)
-      OpenProject.httpx.basic_auth("apikey", api_token).get("http://#{host}/api/v3")
+      OpenProject.httpx.basic_auth("apikey", api_token).get("https://#{host}/api/v3")
     end
 
     ##