diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index c474ff7..33d3789 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
+ "systemd",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-xmpp",
  "tracing",
@@ -123,6 +124,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "generic-array",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "build-env"
+version = "0.3.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1522ac6ee801a11bf9ef3f80403f4ede6eb41291fac3dde3de09989679305f25"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "bytes"
 version = "1.3.0"
@@ -196,6 +203,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "subtle",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "cstr-argument"
+version = "0.1.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b6bd9c8e659a473bce955ae5c35b116af38af11a7acb0b480e01f3ed348aeb40"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+ "memchr",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "data-encoding"
 version = "2.3.3"
@@ -255,7 +272,28 @@ version = "0.3.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "f6f339eb8adc052cd2ca78910fda869aefa38d22d5cb648e6485e4d3fc06f3b1"
 dependencies = [
- "foreign-types-shared",
+ "foreign-types-shared 0.1.1",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "foreign-types"
+version = "0.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d737d9aa519fb7b749cbc3b962edcf310a8dd1f4b67c91c4f83975dbdd17d965"
+dependencies = [
+ "foreign-types-macros",
+ "foreign-types-shared 0.3.1",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "foreign-types-macros"
+version = "0.2.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c8469d0d40519bc608ec6863f1cc88f3f1deee15913f2f3b3e573d81ed38cccc"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -264,6 +302,12 @@ version = "0.1.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "00b0228411908ca8685dba7fc2cdd70ec9990a6e753e89b6ac91a84c40fbaf4b"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "foreign-types-shared"
+version = "0.3.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "aa9a19cbb55df58761df49b23516a86d432839add4af60fc256da840f66ed35b"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "form_urlencoded"
 version = "1.1.0"
@@ -566,6 +610,17 @@ version = "0.2.138"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "db6d7e329c562c5dfab7a46a2afabc8b987ab9a4834c9d1ca04dc54c1546cef8"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "libsystemd-sys"
+version = "0.9.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ed080163caa59cc29b34bce2209b737149a4bac148cd9a8b04e4c12822798119"
+dependencies = [
+ "build-env",
+ "libc",
+ "pkg-config",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "linked-hash-map"
 version = "0.5.6"
@@ -737,7 +792,7 @@ checksum = "29d971fd5722fec23977260f6e81aa67d2f22cadbdc2aa049f1022d9a3be1566"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags",
  "cfg-if",
- "foreign-types",
+ "foreign-types 0.3.2",
  "libc",
  "once_cell",
  "openssl-macros",
@@ -1294,6 +1349,21 @@ version = "0.1.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "20518fe4a4c9acf048008599e464deb21beeae3d3578418951a189c235a7a9a8"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "systemd"
+version = "0.10.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "afec0101d9ae8ab26aedf0840109df689938ea7e538aa03df4369f1854f11562"
+dependencies = [
+ "cstr-argument",
+ "foreign-types 0.5.0",
+ "libc",
+ "libsystemd-sys",
+ "log",
+ "memchr",
+ "utf8-cstr",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tempfile"
 version = "3.3.0"
@@ -1641,6 +1711,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "percent-encoding",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "utf8-cstr"
+version = "0.1.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "55bcbb425141152b10d5693095950b51c3745d019363fc2929ffd8f61449b628"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "valuable"
 version = "0.1.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c8418aa..b7847ee 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@ serde_json = "1"
 tokio-xmpp = "3"
 xmpp-parsers = "0.19"
 axum = "0.6"
+systemd = "0.10"
diff --git a/src/jabber.rs b/src/jabber.rs
index a38c787..6aeb643 100644
--- a/src/jabber.rs
+++ b/src/jabber.rs
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ pub async fn run(jid: String, password: String, muc_jid: String) -> Handle {
                             Err(err) => println!("Received invalid presence: {:?}", err),
                         }
                     }
+                    systemd::daemon::notify(false, [(systemd::daemon::STATE_WATCHDOG, "1")].iter())
+                        .unwrap();
                 }
                 _ => {}
             }
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 6e51af2..1fe6f3f 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -84,8 +84,10 @@ async fn main() {
 
     let addr = SocketAddr::from(([127, 0, 0, 1], 9022));
     tracing::debug!("listening on {}", addr);
-    axum::Server::bind(&addr)
-        .serve(app.into_make_service())
-        .await
+    let server = axum::Server::bind(&addr)
+        .serve(app.into_make_service());
+    systemd::daemon::notify(false, [(systemd::daemon::STATE_READY, "1")].iter())
+        .unwrap();
+    server.await
         .unwrap();
 }