diff --git a/cmd/admin-handlers.go b/cmd/admin-handlers.go
index 1f5bb15bf..8f943693c 100644
--- a/cmd/admin-handlers.go
+++ b/cmd/admin-handlers.go
@@ -448,6 +448,12 @@ func (adminAPI adminAPIHandlers) ListUploadsHealHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r
 		return
 	}
 
+	// Check if this setup has an erasure coded backend.
+	if !globalIsXL {
+		writeErrorResponse(w, ErrHealNotImplemented, r.URL)
+		return
+	}
+
 	// Validate query params.
 	vars := r.URL.Query()
 	bucket := vars.Get(string(mgmtBucket))
@@ -531,6 +537,12 @@ func (adminAPI adminAPIHandlers) ListObjectsHealHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r
 		return
 	}
 
+	// Check if this setup has an erasure coded backend.
+	if !globalIsXL {
+		writeErrorResponse(w, ErrHealNotImplemented, r.URL)
+		return
+	}
+
 	// Validate query params.
 	vars := r.URL.Query()
 	bucket, prefix, marker, delimiter, maxKey, adminAPIErr := extractListObjectsHealQuery(vars)
@@ -567,6 +579,12 @@ func (adminAPI adminAPIHandlers) ListBucketsHealHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r
 		return
 	}
 
+	// Check if this setup has an erasure coded backend.
+	if !globalIsXL {
+		writeErrorResponse(w, ErrHealNotImplemented, r.URL)
+		return
+	}
+
 	// Get the list buckets to be healed.
 	bucketsInfo, err := objLayer.ListBucketsHeal()
 	if err != nil {
@@ -598,6 +616,12 @@ func (adminAPI adminAPIHandlers) HealBucketHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *htt
 		return
 	}
 
+	// Check if this setup has an erasure coded backend.
+	if !globalIsXL {
+		writeErrorResponse(w, ErrHealNotImplemented, r.URL)
+		return
+	}
+
 	// Validate bucket name and check if it exists.
 	vars := r.URL.Query()
 	bucket := vars.Get(string(mgmtBucket))
@@ -687,6 +711,12 @@ func (adminAPI adminAPIHandlers) HealObjectHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *htt
 		return
 	}
 
+	// Check if this setup has an erasure coded backend.
+	if !globalIsXL {
+		writeErrorResponse(w, ErrHealNotImplemented, r.URL)
+		return
+	}
+
 	vars := r.URL.Query()
 	bucket := vars.Get(string(mgmtBucket))
 	object := vars.Get(string(mgmtObject))
@@ -745,6 +775,12 @@ func (adminAPI adminAPIHandlers) HealUploadHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *htt
 		return
 	}
 
+	// Check if this setup has an erasure coded backend.
+	if !globalIsXL {
+		writeErrorResponse(w, ErrHealNotImplemented, r.URL)
+		return
+	}
+
 	vars := r.URL.Query()
 	bucket := vars.Get(string(mgmtBucket))
 	object := vars.Get(string(mgmtObject))
@@ -824,7 +860,7 @@ func (adminAPI adminAPIHandlers) HealFormatHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *htt
 	// heal-format is only applicable to single node XL and
 	// distributed XL setup.
 	if !globalIsXL {
-		writeErrorResponse(w, ErrNotImplemented, r.URL)
+		writeErrorResponse(w, ErrHealNotImplemented, r.URL)
 		return
 	}
 
diff --git a/cmd/api-errors.go b/cmd/api-errors.go
index 3f2090436..5bf45e4cd 100644
--- a/cmd/api-errors.go
+++ b/cmd/api-errors.go
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ const (
 	ErrAdminCredentialsMismatch
 	ErrInsecureClientRequest
 	ErrObjectTampered
+	ErrHealNotImplemented
 )
 
 // error code to APIError structure, these fields carry respective
@@ -756,6 +757,11 @@ var errorCodeResponse = map[APIErrorCode]APIError{
 		Description:    errObjectTampered.Error(),
 		HTTPStatusCode: http.StatusPartialContent,
 	},
+	ErrHealNotImplemented: {
+		Code:           "XMinioHealNotImplemented",
+		Description:    "This server does not implement heal functionality.",
+		HTTPStatusCode: http.StatusBadRequest,
+	},
 	ErrMaximumExpires: {
 		Code:           "AuthorizationQueryParametersError",
 		Description:    "X-Amz-Expires must be less than a week (in seconds); that is, the given X-Amz-Expires must be less than 604800 seconds",