diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6d95db0438..b3eacad60f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 ### Added
 
 - Add metrics from `/proc/[pid]/io`
+- Add metrics for disk reads and writes per cgroup
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/metric/system/cgroup/cgv1/blkio.go b/metric/system/cgroup/cgv1/blkio.go
index d323b74c31..7334b64c9f 100644
--- a/metric/system/cgroup/cgv1/blkio.go
+++ b/metric/system/cgroup/cgv1/blkio.go
@@ -35,10 +35,12 @@ import (
 //
 // https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt
 type BlockIOSubsystem struct {
-	ID    string   `json:"id,omitempty"`                   // ID of the cgroup.
-	Path  string   `json:"path,omitempty"`                 // Path to the cgroup relative to the cgroup subsystem's mountpoint.
-	Total TotalIOs `json:"total,omitempty" struct:"total"` // Throttle limits for upper IO rates and metrics.
-	//CFQ      CFQScheduler   `json:"cfq,omitempty"`      // Completely fair queue scheduler limits and metrics.
+	ID     string   `json:"id,omitempty"`                     // ID of the cgroup.
+	Path   string   `json:"path,omitempty"`                   // Path to the cgroup relative to the cgroup subsystem's mountpoint.
+	Total  TotalIOs `json:"total,omitempty" struct:"total"`   // Throttle limits for upper IO rates and metrics.
+	Reads  TotalIOs `json:"reads,omitempty" struct:"reads"`   // Throttle limits for upper IO rates and metrics.
+	Writes TotalIOs `json:"writes,omitempty" struct:"writes"` // Throttle limits for upper IO rates and metrics.
+	//CFQ      CFQScheduler   `json:"cfq,omitempty"`          // Completely fair queue scheduler limits and metrics.
 }
 
 // TotalIOs wraps the totals for blkio
@@ -196,6 +198,10 @@ func blkioThrottle(path string, blkio *BlockIOSubsystem) error {
 	for _, dev := range devices {
 		blkio.Total.Bytes += dev.Bytes.Read + dev.Bytes.Write
 		blkio.Total.Ios += dev.IOs.Read + dev.IOs.Write
+		blkio.Reads.Bytes += dev.Bytes.Read
+		blkio.Reads.Ios += dev.IOs.Read
+		blkio.Writes.Bytes += dev.Bytes.Write
+		blkio.Writes.Ios += dev.IOs.Write
 	}
 	return nil
 }
diff --git a/metric/system/cgroup/cgv1/blkio_test.go b/metric/system/cgroup/cgv1/blkio_test.go
index 0a86340361..e66315a394 100644
--- a/metric/system/cgroup/cgv1/blkio_test.go
+++ b/metric/system/cgroup/cgv1/blkio_test.go
@@ -58,8 +58,12 @@ func TestBlkioThrottle(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	assert.Equal(t, uint64(46), blkio.Total.Ios)
-	assert.Equal(t, uint64(1648128), blkio.Total.Bytes)
+	assert.Equal(t, uint64(48), blkio.Total.Ios)
+	assert.Equal(t, uint64(1651200), blkio.Total.Bytes)
+	assert.Equal(t, uint64(46), blkio.Reads.Ios)
+	assert.Equal(t, uint64(1648128), blkio.Reads.Bytes)
+	assert.Equal(t, uint64(2), blkio.Writes.Ios)
+	assert.Equal(t, uint64(3072), blkio.Writes.Bytes)
 
 }
 
diff --git a/metric/system/cgroup/testdata/docker/sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/docker/b29faf21b7eff959f64b4192c34d5d67a707fe8561e9eaa608cb27693fba4242/blkio.throttle.io_service_bytes b/metric/system/cgroup/testdata/docker/sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/docker/b29faf21b7eff959f64b4192c34d5d67a707fe8561e9eaa608cb27693fba4242/blkio.throttle.io_service_bytes
index c3fb43daa7..4b6cde5bd0 100644
--- a/metric/system/cgroup/testdata/docker/sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/docker/b29faf21b7eff959f64b4192c34d5d67a707fe8561e9eaa608cb27693fba4242/blkio.throttle.io_service_bytes
+++ b/metric/system/cgroup/testdata/docker/sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/docker/b29faf21b7eff959f64b4192c34d5d67a707fe8561e9eaa608cb27693fba4242/blkio.throttle.io_service_bytes
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 7:0 Read 4608
-7:0 Write 0
+7:0 Write 1024
 7:0 Sync 0
-7:0 Async 4608
-7:0 Total 4608
+7:0 Async 5632
+7:0 Total 5632
 253:0 Read 4608
-253:0 Write 0
+253:0 Write 2048
 253:0 Sync 0
-253:0 Async 4608
-253:0 Total 4608
+253:0 Async 6656
+253:0 Total 6656
 253:1 Read 1638912
 253:1 Write 0
 253:1 Sync 0
 253:1 Async 1638912
 253:1 Total 1638912
-Total 1648128
+Total 1651200
diff --git a/metric/system/cgroup/testdata/docker/sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/docker/b29faf21b7eff959f64b4192c34d5d67a707fe8561e9eaa608cb27693fba4242/blkio.throttle.io_serviced b/metric/system/cgroup/testdata/docker/sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/docker/b29faf21b7eff959f64b4192c34d5d67a707fe8561e9eaa608cb27693fba4242/blkio.throttle.io_serviced
index fa5ec53d7f..f98f5a3c71 100644
--- a/metric/system/cgroup/testdata/docker/sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/docker/b29faf21b7eff959f64b4192c34d5d67a707fe8561e9eaa608cb27693fba4242/blkio.throttle.io_serviced
+++ b/metric/system/cgroup/testdata/docker/sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/docker/b29faf21b7eff959f64b4192c34d5d67a707fe8561e9eaa608cb27693fba4242/blkio.throttle.io_serviced
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 7:0 Read 2
-7:0 Write 0
+7:0 Write 1
 7:0 Sync 0
-7:0 Async 2
-7:0 Total 2
+7:0 Async 3
+7:0 Total 3
 253:0 Read 2
-253:0 Write 0
+253:0 Write 1
 253:0 Sync 0
 253:0 Async 2
 253:0 Total 2
 253:1 Read 42
 253:1 Write 0
 253:1 Sync 0
-253:1 Async 42
-253:1 Total 42
-Total 46
+253:1 Async 43
+253:1 Total 43
+Total 48