diff --git a/.forgejo/workflows/example-docker-compose.yml b/.forgejo/workflows/example-docker-compose.yml
index b215ba4..f0c8e01 100644
--- a/.forgejo/workflows/example-docker-compose.yml
+++ b/.forgejo/workflows/example-docker-compose.yml
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ jobs:
             sleep 30
           done
           grep --quiet "$success" /tmp/out
+          $cli logs runner-daemon > /tmp/runner.log
+          grep --quiet 'Start image=node:20-bookworm' /tmp/runner.log
 
       - name: full docker compose logs
         if: always()
diff --git a/examples/docker-compose/compose-forgejo-and-runner.yml b/examples/docker-compose/compose-forgejo-and-runner.yml
index 600825e..4a54761 100644
--- a/examples/docker-compose/compose-forgejo-and-runner.yml
+++ b/examples/docker-compose/compose-forgejo-and-runner.yml
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ services:
         forgejo-runner create-runner-file --connect --instance http://forgejo:3000 --name runner --secret {SHARED_SECRET} && break ;
         sleep 1 ;
       done ;
-      sed -i -e "s|\"labels\": null|\"labels\": [\"docker:docker://node:16-bullseye\", \"ubuntu-22.04:docker://catthehacker/ubuntu:act-22.04\"]|" .runner ;
+      sed -i -e "s|\"labels\": null|\"labels\": [\"docker:docker://node:20-bookworm\", \"ubuntu-22.04:docker://catthehacker/ubuntu:act-22.04\"]|" .runner ;
       forgejo-runner generate-config > config.yml ;
       sed -i -e "s|network: .*|network: host|" config.yml ;
       sed -i -e "s|^  envs:$$|  envs:\n    DOCKER_HOST: tcp://docker:2376\n    DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY: 1\n    DOCKER_CERT_PATH: /certs/client|" config.yml ;