diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 0cfba3864..f6de588bc 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -134,10 +134,11 @@ services:
       PGRST_JWT_SECRET: ${JWT_SECRET}
       PGRST_DB_USE_LEGACY_GUCS: "false"
     healthcheck:
-      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "wget --no-verbose --tries=1 --spider http://localhost:3000/ || exit 1"]
+      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "head -c0 </dev/tcp/localhost/3000 || exit 1"]
       interval: 10s
       timeout: 5s
       retries: 5
+      start_period: 15s
 
   # =====================================================
   # Supabase Realtime
@@ -208,6 +209,7 @@ services:
       interval: 10s
       timeout: 5s
       retries: 5
+      start_period: 15s
 
   # =====================================================
   # Supabase imgproxy (image transformations)
@@ -266,6 +268,7 @@ services:
       interval: 10s
       timeout: 5s
       retries: 5
+      start_period: 30s
 
   # =====================================================
   # Supabase Inbucket (Email testing)