diff --git a/CHANGELOG.asciidoc b/CHANGELOG.asciidoc
index 13c115ae98c..de4183173b1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.asciidoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.asciidoc
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v6.0.0-beta2...master[Check the HEAD di
 - Auto-select a hostname (based on the host on which the Beat is running) in the Host Overview dashboard. {pull}5340[5340]
 - Add Kubernetes manifests to deploy Metricbeat. {pull}5349[5349]
 - Add etcd module. {issue}4970[4970]
+- Add ip address of docker containers to event. {pull}5379[5379]
 
 *Packetbeat*
 
diff --git a/metricbeat/docs/fields.asciidoc b/metricbeat/docs/fields.asciidoc
index 508310c3964..a4e3eab94c9 100644
--- a/metricbeat/docs/fields.asciidoc
+++ b/metricbeat/docs/fields.asciidoc
@@ -1908,6 +1908,14 @@ type: keyword
 Container status.
 
 
+[float]
+=== `docker.container.ip_addresses`
+
+type: keyword
+
+Container IP addresses.
+
+
 [float]
 == size fields
 
diff --git a/metricbeat/module/docker/container/_meta/data.json b/metricbeat/module/docker/container/_meta/data.json
index 5fec882399e..2a5e7b5feb5 100644
--- a/metricbeat/module/docker/container/_meta/data.json
+++ b/metricbeat/module/docker/container/_meta/data.json
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
                 "com_docker_compose_version": "1.9.0-rc4"
             },
             "name": "environments_beat_run_1",
+            "ip_addresses": [
+              "10.0.0.1"
+            ],
             "size": {
                 "root_fs": 0,
                 "rw": 0
diff --git a/metricbeat/module/docker/container/_meta/fields.yml b/metricbeat/module/docker/container/_meta/fields.yml
index b22f2d6f30c..e0db89c38ae 100644
--- a/metricbeat/module/docker/container/_meta/fields.yml
+++ b/metricbeat/module/docker/container/_meta/fields.yml
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
       type: keyword
       description: >
         Container status.
+    - name: ip_addresses
+      type: keyword
+      description: >
+        Container IP addresses.
     - name: size
       type: group
       description: >
diff --git a/metricbeat/module/docker/container/data.go b/metricbeat/module/docker/container/data.go
index 199cb4df2ae..492c7b39aee 100644
--- a/metricbeat/module/docker/container/data.go
+++ b/metricbeat/module/docker/container/data.go
@@ -19,11 +19,12 @@ func eventsMapping(containersList []dc.APIContainers) []common.MapStr {
 
 func eventMapping(cont *dc.APIContainers) common.MapStr {
 	event := common.MapStr{
-		"created": common.Time(time.Unix(cont.Created, 0)),
-		"id":      cont.ID,
-		"name":    docker.ExtractContainerName(cont.Names),
-		"command": cont.Command,
-		"image":   cont.Image,
+		"created":      common.Time(time.Unix(cont.Created, 0)),
+		"id":           cont.ID,
+		"name":         docker.ExtractContainerName(cont.Names),
+		"command":      cont.Command,
+		"image":        cont.Image,
+		"ip_addresses": extractIPAddresses(cont.Networks),
 		"size": common.MapStr{
 			"root_fs": cont.SizeRootFs,
 			"rw":      cont.SizeRw,
@@ -39,3 +40,11 @@ func eventMapping(cont *dc.APIContainers) common.MapStr {
 
 	return event
 }
+
+func extractIPAddresses(networks dc.NetworkList) []string {
+	ipAddresses := make([]string, 0, len(networks.Networks))
+	for _, network := range networks.Networks {
+		ipAddresses = append(ipAddresses, network.IPAddress)
+	}
+	return ipAddresses
+}