diff --git a/app/workers/keep_alive_worker.rb b/app/workers/keep_alive_worker.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5be6b963d2783604bb57f492faa14fdb3bfc2c88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/workers/keep_alive_worker.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+class KeepAliveWorker
+  include Sidekiq::Worker
+
+  def perform
+    ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute('Select 1')
+  end
+end
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/23885-implement-keep-alive-requests-for-db-connection.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/23885-implement-keep-alive-requests-for-db-connection.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8fd6bc0cccd8e27ed8a847a6de1030fbf930a628
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/23885-implement-keep-alive-requests-for-db-connection.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+title: Implements keep-alive requests for the database connection
+merge_request: 8562
+author: Hannes Rosenögger
diff --git a/config/initializers/1_settings.rb b/config/initializers/1_settings.rb
index ee97b4e42b95197e30716eb90d9614d08d6737d7..ebb667837dd130206a490b55005edeac218956f4 100644
--- a/config/initializers/1_settings.rb
+++ b/config/initializers/1_settings.rb
@@ -319,6 +319,10 @@ def host(url)
 Settings.cron_jobs['remove_unreferenced_lfs_objects_worker']['cron'] ||= '20 0 * * *'
 Settings.cron_jobs['remove_unreferenced_lfs_objects_worker']['job_class'] = 'RemoveUnreferencedLfsObjectsWorker'
 
+Settings.cron_jobs['keep_alive_worker'] ||= Settingslogic.new({})
+Settings.cron_jobs['keep_alive_worker']['cron'] ||= '*/10 * * * *'
+Settings.cron_jobs['keep_alive_worker']['job_class'] = 'KeepAliveWorker'
+
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