diff --git a/pkg/api/container_health.go b/pkg/api/container_health.go
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+package api
+
+import "time"
+
+const (
+	// defaultDockerHealthcheckInterval is the default Docker interval between health check runs.
+	defaultDockerHealthcheckInterval = 30 * time.Second
+	// defaultDockerHealthcheckRetries is the default Docker number of consecutive failures needed
+	// to consider the container unhealthy.
+	defaultDockerHealthcheckRetries = 3
+)