diff --git a/modules/influxdb/influxdb.go b/modules/influxdb/influxdb.go
index 609b11467b..4c6024d79c 100644
--- a/modules/influxdb/influxdb.go
+++ b/modules/influxdb/influxdb.go
@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@ package influxdb
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
+	"io"
 	"path"
-	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go"
 	"github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go/wait"
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ func Run(ctx context.Context, img string, opts ...testcontainers.ContainerCustom
 			"INFLUXDB_HTTP_HTTPS_ENABLED":    "false",
 			"INFLUXDB_HTTP_AUTH_ENABLED":     "false",
 		},
-		WaitingFor: wait.ForListeningPort("8086/tcp"),
+		WaitingFor: waitForHttpHealth(),
 	}
 	genericContainerReq := testcontainers.GenericContainerRequest{
 		ContainerRequest: req,
@@ -47,38 +48,6 @@ func Run(ctx context.Context, img string, opts ...testcontainers.ContainerCustom
 		}
 	}
 
-	hasInitDb := false
-
-	for _, f := range genericContainerReq.Files {
-		if f.ContainerFilePath == "/" && strings.HasSuffix(f.HostFilePath, "docker-entrypoint-initdb.d") {
-			// Init service in container will start influxdb, run scripts in docker-entrypoint-initdb.d and then
-			// terminate the influxdb server, followed by restart of influxdb.  This is tricky to wait for, and
-			// in this case, we are assuming that data was added by init script, so we then look for an
-			// "Open shard" which is the last thing that happens before the server is ready to accept connections.
-			// This is probably different for InfluxDB 2.x, but that is left as an exercise for the reader.
-			strategies := []wait.Strategy{
-				genericContainerReq.WaitingFor,
-				wait.ForLog("influxdb init process in progress..."),
-				wait.ForLog("Server shutdown completed"),
-				wait.ForLog("Opened shard"),
-			}
-			genericContainerReq.WaitingFor = wait.ForAll(strategies...)
-			hasInitDb = true
-			break
-		}
-	}
-
-	if !hasInitDb {
-		if lastIndex := strings.LastIndex(genericContainerReq.Image, ":"); lastIndex != -1 {
-			tag := genericContainerReq.Image[lastIndex+1:]
-			if tag == "latest" || tag[0] == '2' {
-				genericContainerReq.WaitingFor = wait.ForLog(`Listening log_id=[0-9a-zA-Z_~]+ service=tcp-listener transport=http`).AsRegexp()
-			}
-		} else {
-			genericContainerReq.WaitingFor = wait.ForLog("Listening for signals")
-		}
-	}
-
 	container, err := testcontainers.GenericContainer(ctx, genericContainerReq)
 	var c *InfluxDbContainer
 	if container != nil {
@@ -147,9 +116,8 @@ func WithConfigFile(configFile string) testcontainers.CustomizeRequestOption {
 	}
 }
 
-// WithInitDb will copy a 'docker-entrypoint-initdb.d' directory to the container.
-// The secPath is the path to the directory on the host machine.
-// The directory will be copied to the root of the container.
+// WithInitDb returns a request customizer that initialises the database using the file `docker-entrypoint-initdb.d`
+// located in `srcPath` directory.
 func WithInitDb(srcPath string) testcontainers.CustomizeRequestOption {
 	return func(req *testcontainers.GenericContainerRequest) error {
 		cf := testcontainers.ContainerFile{
@@ -158,6 +126,25 @@ func WithInitDb(srcPath string) testcontainers.CustomizeRequestOption {
 			FileMode:          0o755,
 		}
 		req.Files = append(req.Files, cf)
+
+		req.WaitingFor = wait.ForAll(
+			wait.ForLog("Server shutdown completed"),
+			waitForHttpHealth(),
+		)
 		return nil
 	}
 }
+
+func waitForHttpHealth() *wait.HTTPStrategy {
+	return wait.ForHTTP("/health").
+		WithResponseMatcher(func(body io.Reader) bool {
+			decoder := json.NewDecoder(body)
+			r := struct {
+				Status string `json:"status"`
+			}{}
+			if err := decoder.Decode(&r); err != nil {
+				return false
+			}
+			return r.Status == "pass"
+		})
+}