When to Use This Skill
- When adding health checks to any Dokploy service
- When configuring service dependencies with
service_healthy
- When troubleshooting container startup order issues
- When user asks about "health checks" or "service dependencies"
When NOT to Use This Skill
- For services that don't support health checks (rare, most do)
- For helper services that start instantly (use
service_started instead)
Prerequisites
- Understanding of service internals (ports, health endpoints)
- Knowledge of available tools in container (curl, wget, etc.)
Core Pattern
Standard Health Check Template
Every health check follows this structure: