diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
index def092b..cc8791e 100644
--- a/.env.example
+++ b/.env.example
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ CLOUDFLARE_TUNNEL_TOKEN=
 # Use this to access OpenAI/Anthropic/Google APIs from restricted regions.
 
 # Credentials (auto-generated)
-GOST_USERNAME=
+GOST_USERNAME=gost
 GOST_PASSWORD=
 
 # Proxy URL for AI services (auto-generated: http://user:pass@gost:8080)
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 0017529..3580e08 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -359,11 +359,11 @@ services:
       - "-F"
       - "${GOST_UPSTREAM_PROXY}"
     healthcheck:
-      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "wget -q --spider http://${GOST_USERNAME}:${GOST_PASSWORD}@localhost:8080 || exit 1"]
-      interval: 30s
-      timeout: 10s
+      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "wget -qO- --proxy=on -e http_proxy=http://${GOST_USERNAME}:${GOST_PASSWORD}@localhost:8080 https://httpbin.org/ip >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 1"]
+      interval: 60s
+      timeout: 15s
       retries: 3
-      start_period: 5s
+      start_period: 10s
     logging:
       driver: "json-file"
       options:
diff --git a/scripts/03_generate_secrets.sh b/scripts/03_generate_secrets.sh
index df36b5b..ab99591 100755
--- a/scripts/03_generate_secrets.sh
+++ b/scripts/03_generate_secrets.sh
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ EMAIL_VARS=(
     "DASHBOARD_USERNAME"
     "DOCLING_USERNAME"
     "FLOWISE_USERNAME"
-    "GOST_USERNAME"
     "LANGFUSE_INIT_USER_EMAIL"
     "LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL"
     "LIGHTRAG_USERNAME"
@@ -80,6 +79,7 @@ declare -A VARS_TO_GENERATE=(
     ["ENCRYPTION_KEY"]="hex:64" # Langfuse Encryption Key (32 bytes -> 64 hex chars)
     ["FLOWISE_PASSWORD"]="password:32"
     ["GOST_PASSWORD"]="password:32"
+    ["GOST_USERNAME"]="fixed:gost"
     ["GRAFANA_ADMIN_PASSWORD"]="password:32"
     ["JWT_SECRET"]="base64:64" # 48 bytes -> 64 chars
     ["LANGFUSE_INIT_PROJECT_PUBLIC_KEY"]="langfuse_pk:32"