diff --git a/src/utils/config/api-response.js b/src/utils/config/api-response.js
index a34505377..b03e38317 100644
--- a/src/utils/config/api-response.js
+++ b/src/utils/config/api-response.js
@@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ export async function servicesResponse() {
 
   try {
     discoveredServices = cleanServiceGroups(await servicesFromDocker());
+    if (discoveredServices?.length === 0) {
+      console.debug("No containers were found with homepage labels.");
+    }
   } catch (e) {
     console.error("Failed to discover services, please check docker.yaml for errors or remove example entries.");
     if (e) console.error(e.toString());
diff --git a/src/utils/config/service-helpers.js b/src/utils/config/service-helpers.js
index cccd010bd..e95159a6d 100644
--- a/src/utils/config/service-helpers.js
+++ b/src/utils/config/service-helpers.js
@@ -82,10 +82,6 @@ export async function servicesFromDocker() {
     })
   );
 
-  if (serviceServers.every(server => server.services.length === 0)) {
-    throw new Error('All docker servers failed to connect or returned no containers');
-  }
-
   const mappedServiceGroups = [];
 
   serviceServers.forEach((server) => {