diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 0beae0b..5858998 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -54,8 +54,19 @@ test-integration:
 
 # Real backends in containers (Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MinIO).
 # Requires a Docker daemon; skipped by every other target via the build tag.
+#
+# testcontainers does not read the docker CLI context, so under colima it has to
+# be told twice: DOCKER_HOST is the host-side socket it connects to, and
+# TESTCONTAINERS_DOCKER_SOCKET_OVERRIDE is the same socket as seen *inside* the
+# VM, which is what its reaper container bind-mounts. Empty on Docker Desktop
+# and in CI, where the default socket is already correct for both.
+ifeq ($(shell docker context show 2>/dev/null),colima)
+CONTAINER_ENV := DOCKER_HOST=$(shell docker context inspect colima --format '{{.Endpoints.docker.Host}}') \
+                 TESTCONTAINERS_DOCKER_SOCKET_OVERRIDE=/var/run/docker.sock
+endif
+
 test-containers:
-	go test -race -tags=integration ./test/integration/... -count=1 -timeout 900s
+	$(CONTAINER_ENV) go test -race -tags=integration ./test/integration/... -count=1 -timeout 900s
 
 test-e2e:
 	go test ./test/e2e/... -count=1 -timeout 300s
diff --git a/internal/transport/rest/errors.go b/internal/transport/rest/errors.go
index b93bf2e..fc3fe17 100644
--- a/internal/transport/rest/errors.go
+++ b/internal/transport/rest/errors.go
@@ -27,7 +27,11 @@ type errorResponse struct {
 // gets the category and, for input errors, the reason.
 func writeError(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, err error) {
 	status, message := classify(err)
-	if status >= http.StatusInternalServerError {
+	// Only the internal-error bucket is logged. A 503 from a draining instance
+	// is expected operation and would otherwise fill the log on every rolling
+	// deploy, and an unreachable database is already logged where it is
+	// detected, with the driver detail the response deliberately drops.
+	if status == http.StatusInternalServerError {
 		log.Printf("ERROR: request_id=%s %s %s: %v", middleware.GetReqID(r.Context()), r.Method, r.URL.Path, err)
 	}
 	writeStatus(w, r, status, message)