diff --git a/.circleci/deployment/values/speckle-server.values.yaml b/.circleci/deployment/values/speckle-server.values.yaml
index d798f4b35..135003584 100644
--- a/.circleci/deployment/values/speckle-server.values.yaml
+++ b/.circleci/deployment/values/speckle-server.values.yaml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ objects:
 
 frontend_2:
   enabled: true
-  logPretty: true
+  logPretty: false #FIX: FE2 does not yet support 'true' https://linear.app/speckle/issue/WEB-1166/frontend-2-does-not-support-nuxt-public-log-pretty=true-in-docker
 
 preview_service:
   replicas: 0
diff --git a/utils/helm/speckle-server/templates/objects/deployment.yml b/utils/helm/speckle-server/templates/objects/deployment.yml
index c2beb8b25..0b634e08e 100644
--- a/utils/helm/speckle-server/templates/objects/deployment.yml
+++ b/utils/helm/speckle-server/templates/objects/deployment.yml
@@ -64,11 +64,20 @@ spec:
             exec:
               command: ["sleep", "5"]
 
+        startupProbe:
+          periodSeconds: 10
+          failureThreshold: 60 # 10*60 = 600s; accounts for long-running db migrations
+          timeoutSeconds: 3
+          exec:
+            command:
+              - node
+              - -e
+              - "try { require('node:http').request({headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}, port:3000, hostname:'127.0.0.1', path:'/liveness', method: 'GET', timeout: 2000 }, (res) => { body = ''; res.on('data', (chunk) => {body += chunk;}); res.on('end', () => {process.exit(res.statusCode != 200 || body.toLowerCase().includes('error'));}); }).end(); } catch { process.exit(1); }"
+
         livenessProbe:
-          # account for long-running migrations
-          initialDelaySeconds: 600
           periodSeconds: 60
           timeoutSeconds: 10
+          failureThreshold: 3
           exec:
             command:
               - node
@@ -77,8 +86,9 @@ spec:
 
         readinessProbe:
           initialDelaySeconds: 5
-          periodSeconds: 10
-          timeoutSeconds: 10
+          periodSeconds: 4
+          timeoutSeconds: 2
+          failureThreshold: 1
           exec:
             command:
               - node
diff --git a/utils/helm/speckle-server/templates/server/deployment.yml b/utils/helm/speckle-server/templates/server/deployment.yml
index 6a549db4a..6dfc629ec 100644
--- a/utils/helm/speckle-server/templates/server/deployment.yml
+++ b/utils/helm/speckle-server/templates/server/deployment.yml
@@ -69,11 +69,20 @@ spec:
             exec:
               command: ["sleep", "5"]
 
+        startupProbe:
+          periodSeconds: 10
+          failureThreshold: 60 # 10*60 = 600s; accounts for long-running db migrations
+          timeoutSeconds: 3
+          exec:
+            command:
+              - node
+              - -e
+              - "try { require('node:http').request({headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}, port:3000, hostname:'127.0.0.1', path:'/liveness', method: 'GET', timeout: 2000 }, (res) => { body = ''; res.on('data', (chunk) => {body += chunk;}); res.on('end', () => {process.exit(res.statusCode != 200 || body.toLowerCase().includes('error'));}); }).end(); } catch { process.exit(1); }"
+
         livenessProbe:
-          # account for long-running migrations
-          initialDelaySeconds: 600
           periodSeconds: 60
           timeoutSeconds: 10
+          failureThreshold: 3
           exec:
             command:
               - node
@@ -82,8 +91,9 @@ spec:
 
         readinessProbe:
           initialDelaySeconds: 5
-          periodSeconds: 10
-          timeoutSeconds: 10
+          periodSeconds: 4
+          timeoutSeconds: 2
+          failureThreshold: 1
           exec:
             command:
               - node