diff --git a/templates/test/ci/cluster-template-prow-private.yaml b/templates/test/ci/cluster-template-prow-private.yaml
index a69d0e249de..224dba835ab 100644
--- a/templates/test/ci/cluster-template-prow-private.yaml
+++ b/templates/test/ci/cluster-template-prow-private.yaml
@@ -251,6 +251,25 @@ spec:
   tenantID: ${AZURE_TENANT_ID}
   type: UserAssignedMSI
 ---
+apiVersion: cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: MachineHealthCheck
+metadata:
+  name: ${CLUSTER_NAME}-control-plane
+  namespace: default
+spec:
+  clusterName: ${CLUSTER_NAME}
+  maxUnhealthy: 100%
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      cluster.x-k8s.io/control-plane: ""
+  unhealthyConditions:
+  - status: Unknown
+    timeout: 300s
+    type: Ready
+  - status: "False"
+    timeout: 300s
+    type: Ready
+---
 apiVersion: addons.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1
 kind: ClusterResourceSet
 metadata:
diff --git a/templates/test/ci/prow-private/kustomization.yaml b/templates/test/ci/prow-private/kustomization.yaml
index 059607b987f..8ef2fc2dfde 100644
--- a/templates/test/ci/prow-private/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/templates/test/ci/prow-private/kustomization.yaml
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ kind: Kustomization
 namespace: default
 resources:
 - ../../../flavors/private
+- ../prow/mhc-kubeadmcontrolplane.yaml
 - cni-resource-set.yaml
 - ../../../addons/cluster-api-helm/calico.yaml
 - ../../../addons/cluster-api-helm/azuredisk-csi-driver.yaml