diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index f28f4e2f..8c10fa61 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# syntax=docker/dockerfile:labs
+# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1.6
 
 # 0. Prepare images
 ARG PYTHON_VERSION="3.11"
@@ -61,3 +61,6 @@ VOLUME /config
 WORKDIR /config
 
 CMD ["go2rtc", "-config", "/config/go2rtc.yaml"]
+
+HEALTHCHECK --start-period=10s --start-interval=2s --interval=30s --timeout=10s --retries=3 \
+    CMD curl --fail --silent --show-error --output /dev/null http://127.0.0.1:1984/api || exit 1
diff --git a/hardware.Dockerfile b/hardware.Dockerfile
index b3e064c6..7c8745a4 100644
--- a/hardware.Dockerfile
+++ b/hardware.Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# syntax=docker/dockerfile:labs
+# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1.6
 
 # 0. Prepare images
 # only debian 12 (bookworm) has latest ffmpeg
@@ -64,3 +64,6 @@ ENV NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES all
 ENV NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES compute,video,utility
 
 CMD ["go2rtc", "-config", "/config/go2rtc.yaml"]
+
+HEALTHCHECK --start-period=10s --start-interval=2s --interval=30s --timeout=10s --retries=3 \
+  CMD curl --fail --silent --show-error --output /dev/null http://127.0.0.1:1984/api/ || exit 1