diff --git a/api.go b/api.go
index 4651c618c..310f06e81 100644
--- a/api.go
+++ b/api.go
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 // Returns all available stats for the given container.
-func GetContainerStats(container *Config, state *State) (*ContainerStats, error) {
+func GetStats(container *Config, state *State) (*ContainerStats, error) {
 	var containerStats ContainerStats
 	stats, err := fs.GetStats(container.Cgroups)
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/network/stats.go b/network/stats.go
index 1ae8482e2..b69fa9185 100644
--- a/network/stats.go
+++ b/network/stats.go
@@ -30,14 +30,16 @@ func GetStats(networkState *NetworkState) (NetworkStats, error) {
 		return NetworkStats{}, err
 	}
 
-	return NetworkStats{RxBytes: data["rx_bytes"],
+	return NetworkStats{
+		RxBytes:   data["rx_bytes"],
 		RxPackets: data["rx_packets"],
 		RxErrors:  data["rx_errors"],
 		RxDropped: data["rx_dropped"],
 		TxBytes:   data["tx_bytes"],
 		TxPackets: data["tx_packets"],
 		TxErrors:  data["tx_errors"],
-		TxDropped: data["tx_dropped"]}, nil
+		TxDropped: data["tx_dropped"],
+	}, nil
 }
 
 // Reads all the statistics available under /sys/class/net/<EthInterface>/statistics as a map with file name as key and data as integers.
diff --git a/nsinit/stats.go b/nsinit/stats.go
index 5a90b599a..eae983380 100644
--- a/nsinit/stats.go
+++ b/nsinit/stats.go
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ func statsAction(context *cli.Context) {
 		log.Fatal(err)
 	}
 
-	stats, err := getContainerStats(container, runtimeCkpt)
+	stats, err := getStats(container, runtimeCkpt)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatalf("Failed to get stats - %v\n", err)
 	}
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ func statsAction(context *cli.Context) {
 }
 
 // returns the container stats in json format.
-func getContainerStats(container *libcontainer.Config, state *libcontainer.State) (string, error) {
-	stats, err := libcontainer.GetContainerStats(container, state)
+func getStats(container *libcontainer.Config, state *libcontainer.State) (string, error) {
+	stats, err := libcontainer.GetStats(container, state)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}