diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3bb3c86..d06e77e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ Which is based on [Keep A Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/)
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Added 
+ - metrics-docker-stats.rb: New option `--container-list-regex` to filter containers using Regex String (@parin921996).
+ 
 ## [3.1.1] - 2018
 ### Fixed
  - check-container-logs.rb: fix nil.gsub condition on empty log lines
diff --git a/bin/metrics-docker-stats.rb b/bin/metrics-docker-stats.rb
index 0c58a01..5c4785e 100755
--- a/bin/metrics-docker-stats.rb
+++ b/bin/metrics-docker-stats.rb
@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ class DockerStatsMetrics < Sensu::Plugin::Metric::CLI::Graphite
          long: '--container-name CONTAINER',
          default: ''
 
+  option :container_list_regex,
+         description: 'Regex for container list to collect metrics for',
+         short: '-R CONTAINER_LIST_REGEX',
+         long: '--container-list-regex CONTAINER_LIST_REGEX'
+
   option :docker_host,
          description: 'Docker API URI. https://host, https://host:port, http://host, http://host:port, host:port, unix:///path',
          short: '-H DOCKER_HOST',
@@ -109,12 +114,24 @@ class DockerStatsMetrics < Sensu::Plugin::Metric::CLI::Graphite
          boolean: true,
          default: false
 
+  def create_container_list(container_list, pattern)
+    matched_list = []
+    container_list.each do |container|
+      if container =~ /#{pattern}/
+        matched_list.push(container)
+      end
+    end
+    matched_list
+  end
+
   def run
     @timestamp = Time.now.to_i
     @client = DockerApi.new(config[:docker_host])
 
     list = if config[:container] != ''
              [config[:container]]
+           elsif !config[:container_list_regex].nil?
+             create_container_list(list_containers, config[:container_list_regex])
            else
              list_containers
            end
diff --git a/sensu-plugins-docker.gemspec b/sensu-plugins-docker.gemspec
index 4f1c338..64dc909 100644
--- a/sensu-plugins-docker.gemspec
+++ b/sensu-plugins-docker.gemspec
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_development_dependency 'codeclimate-test-reporter', '~> 0.4'
   s.add_development_dependency 'github-markup',             '~> 1.3'
   s.add_development_dependency 'kitchen-docker',            '~> 2.6'
+  # TODO: remove this pin when we remove ruby 2.3 support, see: https://github.com/ruby/net-telnet/issues/14 for more information
+  s.add_development_dependency 'net-telnet',                '0.1.1'
   s.add_development_dependency 'pry',                       '~> 0.10'
   s.add_development_dependency 'rake',                      '~> 10.0'
   s.add_development_dependency 'redcarpet',                 '~> 3.2'