This image contains [mc-monitor](https://github.com/itzg/mc-monitor) and uses its `status` command to continually check on the container's. That can be observed from the `STATUS` column of `docker ps`
```
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
b418af073764 mc "/start" 43 seconds ago Up 41 seconds (healthy) 0.0.0.0:25565->25565/tcp, 25575/tcp mc
```
You can also query the container's health in a script friendly way:
``` shell
> docker container inspect -f "{{.State.Health.Status}}" mc
healthy
```
There's actually a wrapper script called `mc-health` that takes care of calling `mc-monitor status` with the correct arguments. If needing to customize the health checks parameters, such as in a compose file, then use something like the following in the service declaration:
``` yaml
healthcheck:
test: mc-health
start_period: 1m
interval: 5s
retries: 20
```
Some orchestration systems, such as Portainer, don't allow for disabling the default `HEALTHCHECK` declared by this image. In those cases you can approximate the disabling of healthchecks by setting the environment variable `DISABLE_HEALTHCHECK` to `true`.
