diff --git a/web/crux-ui/src/components/deployments/deployment-container-status-list.tsx b/web/crux-ui/src/components/deployments/deployment-container-status-list.tsx
index 6121ec5b9..f636bd2e5 100644
--- a/web/crux-ui/src/components/deployments/deployment-container-status-list.tsx
+++ b/web/crux-ui/src/components/deployments/deployment-container-status-list.tsx
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import {
   containerPrefixNameOf,
   ContainersStateListMessage,
   DeploymentRoot,
+  nameOfInstance,
   WatchContainerStatusMessage,
   WS_TYPE_CONTAINERS_STATE_LIST,
   WS_TYPE_WATCH_CONTAINERS_STATE,
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ export type ContainerProgress = {
   progress: number
 }
 
-interface DeploymentContainerStatusListProps {
+type DeploymentContainerStatusListProps = {
   className?: string
   deployment: DeploymentRoot
   progress: Record<string, ContainerProgress>
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ const DeploymentContainerStatusList = (props: DeploymentContainerStatusListProps
       configId: it.config.id,
       id: {
         prefix: deployment.prefix,
-        name: it.config.name ?? it.image.config.name,
+        name: nameOfInstance(it),
       },
       createdAt: null,
       state: null,
@@ -93,9 +94,9 @@ const DeploymentContainerStatusList = (props: DeploymentContainerStatusListProps
     })
   }
 
-  sock.on(WS_TYPE_CONTAINERS_STATE_LIST, (message: ContainersStateListMessage) =>
-    setContainers(it => merge(it, message.containers)),
-  )
+  sock.on(WS_TYPE_CONTAINERS_STATE_LIST, (message: ContainersStateListMessage) => {
+    setContainers(it => merge(it, message.containers))
+  })
 
   const formatContainerTime = (container: Container) => {
     if (!container.createdAt) {
diff --git a/web/crux-ui/src/components/deployments/deployment-view-list.tsx b/web/crux-ui/src/components/deployments/deployment-view-list.tsx
index 9bf91fe5b..cbcff0ccd 100644
--- a/web/crux-ui/src/components/deployments/deployment-view-list.tsx
+++ b/web/crux-ui/src/components/deployments/deployment-view-list.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import DyoIcon from '@app/elements/dyo-icon'
 import DyoLink from '@app/elements/dyo-link'
 import DyoTable, { DyoColumn, dyoCheckboxColumn, sortDate, sortString } from '@app/elements/dyo-table'
 import useTeamRoutes from '@app/hooks/use-team-routes'
-import { Instance, containerNameOfInstance } from '@app/models'
+import { Instance, nameOfInstance } from '@app/models'
 import { utcDateToLocale } from '@app/utils'
 import useTranslation from 'next-translate/useTranslation'
 import { DeploymentActions, DeploymentState } from './use-deployment-state'
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ const DeploymentViewList = (props: DeploymentViewListProps) => {
           header={t('containerName')}
           className="w-4/12"
           sortable
-          sortField={containerNameOfInstance}
+          sortField={nameOfInstance}
           sort={sortString}
-          body={containerNameOfInstance}
+          body={nameOfInstance}
         />
         <DyoColumn
           header={t('common:registry')}
diff --git a/web/crux-ui/src/models/instance.ts b/web/crux-ui/src/models/instance.ts
index f340c706e..000b1e0fd 100644
--- a/web/crux-ui/src/models/instance.ts
+++ b/web/crux-ui/src/models/instance.ts
@@ -7,5 +7,4 @@ export type Instance = {
   config: ConcreteContainerConfig
 }
 
-export const containerNameOfInstance = (instance: Instance) =>
-  instance.config.name ?? containerNameOfImage(instance.image)
+export const nameOfInstance = (instance: Instance) => instance.config.name ?? containerNameOfImage(instance.image)
diff --git a/web/crux/src/app/node/node.dto.ts b/web/crux/src/app/node/node.dto.ts
index 8dc8635b6..6da84e834 100755
--- a/web/crux/src/app/node/node.dto.ts
+++ b/web/crux/src/app/node/node.dto.ts
@@ -195,8 +195,10 @@ export class ContainerPort {
 }
 
 export class ContainerDto {
+  @ValidateNested()
   id: ContainerIdentifierDto
 
+  @IsString()
   command: string
 
   @Type(() => Date)
@@ -208,14 +210,19 @@ export class ContainerDto {
   state: ContainerState
 
   // kubernetes reason (like crashloop backoff) or docker state
+  @IsString()
   reason: string
 
+  @IsString()
   imageName: string
 
+  @IsString()
   imageTag: string
 
+  @ValidateNested({ each: true })
   ports: ContainerPort[]
 
+  @IsObject()
   labels: Record<string, string>
 }