diff --git a/supabase/helm/knoe-supabase/values.yaml b/supabase/helm/knoe-supabase/values.yaml
index 017a83c..b192c7d 100644
--- a/supabase/helm/knoe-supabase/values.yaml
+++ b/supabase/helm/knoe-supabase/values.yaml
@@ -580,7 +580,12 @@ environment:
     KONG_DECLARATIVE_CONFIG: /usr/local/kong/kong.yml
     ## https://github.com/supabase/cli/issues/14
     KONG_DNS_ORDER: LAST,A,CNAME
-    KONG_PLUGINS: request-transformer,cors,key-auth,acl,basic-auth
+    # `request-termination` added for the /healthz route defined in
+    # templates/kong/config.yaml — Kong treats KONG_PLUGINS as an allowlist
+    # (only listed plugins can be referenced in the declarative config), so
+    # without this entry the Kong pod crashlooped with
+    #   init_by_lua error: plugin 'request-termination' not enabled
+    KONG_PLUGINS: request-transformer,cors,key-auth,acl,basic-auth,request-termination
     KONG_NGINX_PROXY_PROXY_BUFFER_SIZE: 160k
     KONG_NGINX_PROXY_PROXY_BUFFERS: 64 160k
     KONG_LOG_LEVEL: warn