diff --git a/roles/copr/frontend-cloud/files/patches/build_chroot_status_api.patch b/roles/copr/frontend-cloud/files/patches/build_chroot_status_api.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4f7b932b97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/copr/frontend-cloud/files/patches/build_chroot_status_api.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+--- /usr/share/copr/coprs_frontend/coprs/views/apiv3_ns/apiv3_build_chroots.py	2020-02-24 13:58:42.000000000 +0100
++++ /usr/share/copr/coprs_frontend/coprs/views/apiv3_ns/apiv3_build_chroots.py	2020-03-17 14:25:55.660388927 +0100
+@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
+         "started_on": build_chroot.started_on,
+         "ended_on": build_chroot.ended_on,
+         "result_url": build_chroot.result_dir_url,
++        "state": build_chroot.state,
+     }
+
diff --git a/roles/copr/frontend-cloud/tasks/main.yml b/roles/copr/frontend-cloud/tasks/main.yml
index d5556e6d45..e75a45c472 100644
--- a/roles/copr/frontend-cloud/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/copr/frontend-cloud/tasks/main.yml
@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@
 #         dest=/the/patched/file.py
 #  tags: patches
 
+- name: patch to provide build_chroot status over API
+  patch: src=patches/build_chroot_status_api.patch
+         dest=/usr/share/copr/coprs_frontend/coprs/views/apiv3_ns/apiv3_build_chroots.py
+  tags: patches
+
 - name: directory for postgresql dumps
   file: state=directory path=/var/www/html/db_dumps/
         owner=copr-fe mode=755