diff --git a/.chloggen/container-status.yaml b/.chloggen/container-status.yaml
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..09007b2d87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.chloggen/container-status.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Use this changelog template to create an entry for release notes.
+#
+# If your change doesn't affect end users you should instead start
+# your pull request title with [chore] or use the "Skip Changelog" label.
+
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: new_component
+
+# The name of the area of concern in the attributes-registry, (e.g. http, cloud, db)
+component: k8s
+
+# A brief description of the change. Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: "Add k8s.container.status.state metric"
+
+# Mandatory: One or more tracking issues related to the change. You can use the PR number here if no issue exists.
+# The values here must be integers.
+issues: [1672]
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext:
diff --git a/docs/attributes-registry/k8s.md b/docs/attributes-registry/k8s.md
index ab3c706dc8..8400c8a390 100644
--- a/docs/attributes-registry/k8s.md
+++ b/docs/attributes-registry/k8s.md
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ Kubernetes resource attributes.
| `k8s.container.name` | string | The name of the Container from Pod specification, must be unique within a Pod. Container runtime usually uses different globally unique name (`container.name`). | `redis` | ![Experimental](https://img.shields.io/badge/-experimental-blue) |
| `k8s.container.restart_count` | int | Number of times the container was restarted. This attribute can be used to identify a particular container (running or stopped) within a container spec. | | ![Experimental](https://img.shields.io/badge/-experimental-blue) |
| `k8s.container.status.last_terminated_reason` | string | Last terminated reason of the Container. | `Evicted`; `Error` | ![Experimental](https://img.shields.io/badge/-experimental-blue) |
+| `k8s.container.status.reason` | string | The reason for the container state. | `ContainerCreating`; `CrashLoopBackOff`; `CreateContainerConfigError`; `ErrImagePull`; `ImagePullBackOff`; `OOMKilled`; `Completed`; `Error`; `ContainerCannotRun` | ![Experimental](https://img.shields.io/badge/-experimental-blue) |
+| `k8s.container.status.state` | string | The state of the container. | `terminated`; `running`; `waiting` | ![Experimental](https://img.shields.io/badge/-experimental-blue) |
| `k8s.cronjob.name` | string | The name of the CronJob. | `opentelemetry` | ![Experimental](https://img.shields.io/badge/-experimental-blue) |
| `k8s.cronjob.uid` | string | The UID of the CronJob. | `275ecb36-5aa8-4c2a-9c47-d8bb681b9aff` | ![Experimental](https://img.shields.io/badge/-experimental-blue) |
| `k8s.daemonset.name` | string | The name of the DaemonSet. | `opentelemetry` | ![Experimental](https://img.shields.io/badge/-experimental-blue) |
@@ -71,6 +73,33 @@ conflict.
---
+`k8s.container.status.reason` has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.
+
+| Value | Description | Stability |
+|---|---|---|
+| `` | Reason unknown. | ![Experimental](https://img.shields.io/badge/-experimental-blue) |
+| `Completed` | The container has completed execution. | ![Experimental](https://img.shields.io/badge/-experimental-blue) |
+| `ContainerCannotRun` | The container cannot run. | ![Experimental](https://img.shields.io/badge/-experimental-blue) |
+| `ContainerCreating` | The container is being created. | ![Experimental](https://img.shields.io/badge/-experimental-blue) |
+| `CrashLoopBackOff` | The container is in a crash loop back off state. | ![Experimental](https://img.shields.io/badge/-experimental-blue) |
+| `CreateContainerConfigError` | There was an error creating the container configuration. | ![Experimental](https://img.shields.io/badge/-experimental-blue) |
+| `ErrImagePull` | There was an error pulling the container image. | ![Experimental](https://img.shields.io/badge/-experimental-blue) |
+| `Error` | There was an error with the container. | ![Experimental](https://img.shields.io/badge/-experimental-blue) |
+| `ImagePullBackOff` | The container image pull is in back off state. | ![Experimental](https://img.shields.io/badge/-experimental-blue) |
+| `OOMKilled` | The container was killed due to out of memory. | ![Experimental](https://img.shields.io/badge/-experimental-blue) |
+
+---
+
+`k8s.container.status.state` has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.
+
+| Value | Description | Stability |
+|---|---|---|
+| `running` | The container is running. | ![Experimental](https://img.shields.io/badge/-experimental-blue) |
+| `terminated` | The container has terminated. | ![Experimental](https://img.shields.io/badge/-experimental-blue) |
+| `waiting` | The container is waiting. | ![Experimental](https://img.shields.io/badge/-experimental-blue) |
+
+---
+
`k8s.namespace.phase` has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.
| Value | Description | Stability |
diff --git a/model/k8s/metrics.yaml b/model/k8s/metrics.yaml
index c091a5e4a0..fb00f17e56 100644
--- a/model/k8s/metrics.yaml
+++ b/model/k8s/metrics.yaml
@@ -63,6 +63,19 @@ groups:
- ref: network.interface.name
- ref: network.io.direction
+ # k8s.container.* metrics
+ - id: metric.k8s.container.status.state
+ type: metric
+ metric_name: k8s.container.status.state
+ stability: experimental
+ brief: ""
+ instrument: updowncounter
+ unit: ""
+ attributes:
+ - ref: k8s.container.status.state
+ requirement_level: required
+ - ref: k8s.container.status.reason
+
# k8s.node.* metrics
- id: metric.k8s.node.uptime
type: metric
diff --git a/model/k8s/registry.yaml b/model/k8s/registry.yaml
index c9b639b697..f23442eca7 100644
--- a/model/k8s/registry.yaml
+++ b/model/k8s/registry.yaml
@@ -232,3 +232,69 @@ groups:
value: 'terminating'
brief: "Terminating namespace phase as described by [K8s API](https://pkg.go.dev/k8s.io/api@v0.31.3/core/v1#NamespacePhase)"
stability: experimental
+ - id: k8s.container.status.state
+ stability: experimental
+ brief: >
+ The state of the container.
+ type:
+ members:
+ - id: terminated
+ value: 'terminated'
+ brief: 'The container has terminated.'
+ stability: experimental
+ - id: running
+ value: 'running'
+ brief: 'The container is running.'
+ stability: experimental
+ - id: waiting
+ value: 'waiting'
+ brief: 'The container is waiting.'
+ stability: experimental
+ examples: ['terminated', 'running', 'waiting']
+ - id: k8s.container.status.reason
+ type:
+ members:
+ - id: container_creating
+ value: 'ContainerCreating'
+ brief: 'The container is being created.'
+ stability: experimental
+ - id: crash_loop_back_off
+ value: 'CrashLoopBackOff'
+ brief: 'The container is in a crash loop back off state.'
+ stability: experimental
+ - id: create_container_config_error
+ value: 'CreateContainerConfigError'
+ brief: 'There was an error creating the container configuration.'
+ stability: experimental
+ - id: err_image_pull
+ value: 'ErrImagePull'
+ brief: 'There was an error pulling the container image.'
+ stability: experimental
+ - id: image_pull_back_off
+ value: 'ImagePullBackOff'
+ brief: 'The container image pull is in back off state.'
+ stability: experimental
+ - id: oom_killed
+ value: 'OOMKilled'
+ brief: 'The container was killed due to out of memory.'
+ stability: experimental
+ - id: completed
+ value: 'Completed'
+ brief: 'The container has completed execution.'
+ stability: experimental
+ - id: error
+ value: 'Error'
+ brief: 'There was an error with the container.'
+ stability: experimental
+ - id: container_cannot_run
+ value: 'ContainerCannotRun'
+ brief: 'The container cannot run.'
+ stability: experimental
+ - id: empty
+ value: ''
+ brief: 'Reason unknown.'
+ stability: experimental
+ stability: experimental
+ brief: >
+ The reason for the container state.
+ examples: ['ContainerCreating', 'CrashLoopBackOff', 'CreateContainerConfigError', 'ErrImagePull', 'ImagePullBackOff', 'OOMKilled', 'Completed', 'Error', 'ContainerCannotRun']