diff --git a/libcontainer/cgroups/fs/pids.go b/libcontainer/cgroups/fs/pids.go
index 96cbb896c..8f187a59e 100644
--- a/libcontainer/cgroups/fs/pids.go
+++ b/libcontainer/cgroups/fs/pids.go
@@ -47,11 +47,17 @@ func (s *PidsGroup) Remove(d *cgroupData) error {
 }
 
 func (s *PidsGroup) GetStats(path string, stats *cgroups.Stats) error {
-	value, err := getCgroupParamUint(path, "pids.current")
+	current, err := getCgroupParamUint(path, "pids.current")
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("failed to parse pids.current - %s", err)
 	}
 
-	stats.PidsStats.Current = value
+	max, err := getCgroupParamUint(path, "pids.max")
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to parse pids.max - %s", err)
+	}
+
+	stats.PidsStats.Current = current
+	stats.PidsStats.Max = max
 	return nil
 }
diff --git a/libcontainer/cgroups/stats.go b/libcontainer/cgroups/stats.go
index a9a074347..7eba44148 100644
--- a/libcontainer/cgroups/stats.go
+++ b/libcontainer/cgroups/stats.go
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ type MemoryStats struct {
 type PidsStats struct {
 	// number of pids in the cgroup
 	Current uint64 `json:"current,omitempty"`
+	// active pids hard limit
+	Max uint64 `json:"max,omitempty"`
 }
 
 type BlkioStatEntry struct {