Deployments fail healthchecks intermittently due to database connection failures

Question

I'm running Axum/Svelte/Postgres/sqlx for my personal website.
This is what my database connection logs look like (6 more attempts after this before the container is killed since the healthcheck fails).
It's quite intermittent and always goes 1 of 2 ways: connects immediately (healthcheck succeeds on first try) OR fails since healthcheck never returns 200 OK.
The issue is always the database connection never appearing to resolve.
```json
{
  "message": "Database connection failed, retrying...",
  "attributes": {
    "attempt": 1,
    "delay_secs": 1,
    "error": "pool timed out while waiting for an open connection",
    "level": "warn",
    "max_attempts": 10,
    "target": "xevion::db",
    "timestamp": "2026-01-14T18:28:59.926786936Z"
  },
  "tags": {
    "project": "4f95bcc3-aeda-4bd6-9345-bee985903c94",
    "environment": "0efba50e-21aa-41aa-b594-6d532c39ccfd",
    "service": "36ae7bd0-8406-42e9-bb51-ba96d9f7261e",
    "deployment": "ae911cf1-2afc-48c9-a73a-5155f15e35d7",
    "replica": "6110a7fc-efd5-41bc-a87d-bb135f61650d"
  },
  "timestamp": "2026-01-14T18:28:59.929080955Z"
}
```