diff --git a/container/docker/docker.go b/container/docker/docker.go
index ae9f1fdf91..14c717a7c5 100644
--- a/container/docker/docker.go
+++ b/container/docker/docker.go
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ package docker
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"regexp"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ func Status() (v1.DockerStatus, error) {
 
 	out := v1.DockerStatus{}
 	out.Version = VersionString()
+	out.APIVersion = APIVersionString()
 	out.KernelVersion = machine.KernelVersion()
 	out.OS = dockerInfo.OperatingSystem
 	out.Hostname = dockerInfo.Name
@@ -105,7 +107,7 @@ func ValidateInfo() (*dockertypes.Info, error) {
 		}
 		dockerInfo.ServerVersion = version.Version
 	}
-	version, err := parseDockerVersion(dockerInfo.ServerVersion)
+	version, err := parseVersion(dockerInfo.ServerVersion, version_re, 3)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -129,7 +131,11 @@ func ValidateInfo() (*dockertypes.Info, error) {
 }
 
 func Version() ([]int, error) {
-	return parseDockerVersion(VersionString())
+	return parseVersion(VersionString(), version_re, 3)
+}
+
+func APIVersion() ([]int, error) {
+	return parseVersion(APIVersionString(), apiversion_re, 2)
 }
 
 func VersionString() string {
@@ -144,18 +150,29 @@ func VersionString() string {
 	return docker_version
 }
 
-// TODO: switch to a semantic versioning library.
-func parseDockerVersion(full_version_string string) ([]int, error) {
-	matches := version_re.FindAllStringSubmatch(full_version_string, -1)
+func APIVersionString() string {
+	docker_api_version := "Unknown"
+	client, err := Client()
+	if err == nil {
+		version, err := client.ServerVersion(context.Background())
+		if err == nil {
+			docker_api_version = version.APIVersion
+		}
+	}
+	return docker_api_version
+}
+
+func parseVersion(version_string string, regex *regexp.Regexp, length int) ([]int, error) {
+	matches := regex.FindAllStringSubmatch(version_string, -1)
 	if len(matches) != 1 {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("version string \"%v\" doesn't match expected regular expression: \"%v\"", full_version_string, version_regexp_string)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("version string \"%v\" doesn't match expected regular expression: \"%v\"", version_string, regex.String())
 	}
 	version_string_array := matches[0][1:]
-	version_array := make([]int, 3)
-	for index, version_string := range version_string_array {
-		version, err := strconv.Atoi(version_string)
+	version_array := make([]int, length)
+	for index, version_str := range version_string_array {
+		version, err := strconv.Atoi(version_str)
 		if err != nil {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error while parsing \"%v\" in \"%v\"", version_string, full_version_string)
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error while parsing \"%v\" in \"%v\"", version_str, version_string)
 		}
 		version_array[index] = version
 	}
diff --git a/container/docker/docker_test.go b/container/docker/docker_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..07bb784ddd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/container/docker/docker_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+// Copyright 2017 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package docker
+
+import (
+	"reflect"
+	"regexp"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestParseDockerAPIVersion(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		version       string
+		regex         *regexp.Regexp
+		length        int
+		expected      []int
+		expectedError string
+	}{
+		{"17.03.0", version_re, 3, []int{17, 03, 0}, ""},
+		{"17.a3.0", version_re, 3, []int{}, `version string "17.a3.0" doesn't match expected regular expression: "(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)"`},
+		{"1.20", apiversion_re, 2, []int{1, 20}, ""},
+		{"1.a", apiversion_re, 2, []int{}, `version string "1.a" doesn't match expected regular expression: "(\d+)\.(\d+)"`},
+	}
+
+	for _, test := range tests {
+		actual, err := parseVersion(test.version, test.regex, test.length)
+		if err != nil {
+			if len(test.expectedError) == 0 {
+				t.Errorf("%s: expected no error, got %v", test.version, err)
+			} else if err.Error() != test.expectedError {
+				t.Errorf("%s: expected error %v, got %v", test.version, test.expectedError, err)
+			}
+		} else {
+			if !reflect.DeepEqual(actual, test.expected) {
+				t.Errorf("%s: expected array %v, got %v", test.version, test.expected, actual)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/container/docker/factory.go b/container/docker/factory.go
index 08beeddfbc..09d1d3aaba 100644
--- a/container/docker/factory.go
+++ b/container/docker/factory.go
@@ -103,6 +103,8 @@ type dockerFactory struct {
 
 	dockerVersion []int
 
+	dockerAPIVersion []int
+
 	ignoreMetrics container.MetricSet
 
 	thinPoolWatcher *devicemapper.ThinPoolWatcher
@@ -185,8 +187,10 @@ func (self *dockerFactory) DebugInfo() map[string][]string {
 }
 
 var (
-	version_regexp_string = `(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)`
-	version_re            = regexp.MustCompile(version_regexp_string)
+	version_regexp_string    = `(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)`
+	version_re               = regexp.MustCompile(version_regexp_string)
+	apiversion_regexp_string = `(\d+)\.(\d+)`
+	apiversion_re            = regexp.MustCompile(apiversion_regexp_string)
 )
 
 func startThinPoolWatcher(dockerInfo *dockertypes.Info) (*devicemapper.ThinPoolWatcher, error) {
@@ -310,7 +314,9 @@ func Register(factory info.MachineInfoFactory, fsInfo fs.FsInfo, ignoreMetrics c
 	}
 
 	// Version already validated above, assume no error here.
-	dockerVersion, _ := parseDockerVersion(dockerInfo.ServerVersion)
+	dockerVersion, _ := parseVersion(dockerInfo.ServerVersion, version_re, 3)
+
+	dockerAPIVersion, _ := APIVersion()
 
 	cgroupSubsystems, err := libcontainer.GetCgroupSubsystems()
 	if err != nil {
@@ -338,6 +344,7 @@ func Register(factory info.MachineInfoFactory, fsInfo fs.FsInfo, ignoreMetrics c
 		cgroupSubsystems:   cgroupSubsystems,
 		client:             client,
 		dockerVersion:      dockerVersion,
+		dockerAPIVersion:   dockerAPIVersion,
 		fsInfo:             fsInfo,
 		machineInfoFactory: factory,
 		storageDriver:      storageDriver(dockerInfo.Driver),
diff --git a/info/v1/docker.go b/info/v1/docker.go
index 2703c53424..7b5fb7137c 100644
--- a/info/v1/docker.go
+++ b/info/v1/docker.go
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ package v1
 
 type DockerStatus struct {
 	Version       string            `json:"version"`
+	APIVersion    string            `json:"api_version"`
 	KernelVersion string            `json:"kernel_version"`
 	OS            string            `json:"os"`
 	Hostname      string            `json:"hostname"`
diff --git a/info/v1/machine.go b/info/v1/machine.go
index 933b6f3020..c259e0ba81 100644
--- a/info/v1/machine.go
+++ b/info/v1/machine.go
@@ -196,6 +196,9 @@ type VersionInfo struct {
 	// Docker version.
 	DockerVersion string `json:"docker_version"`
 
+	// Docker API Version
+	DockerAPIVersion string `json:"docker_api_version"`
+
 	// cAdvisor version.
 	CadvisorVersion string `json:"cadvisor_version"`
 	// cAdvisor git revision.
diff --git a/info/v2/machine.go b/info/v2/machine.go
index 0e5a613601..ecf04bf58d 100644
--- a/info/v2/machine.go
+++ b/info/v2/machine.go
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ type Attributes struct {
 	// Docker version.
 	DockerVersion string `json:"docker_version"`
 
+	// Docker API version.
+	DockerAPIVersion string `json:"docker_api_version"`
+
 	// cAdvisor version.
 	CadvisorVersion string `json:"cadvisor_version"`
 
@@ -74,6 +77,7 @@ func GetAttributes(mi *v1.MachineInfo, vi *v1.VersionInfo) Attributes {
 		KernelVersion:      vi.KernelVersion,
 		ContainerOsVersion: vi.ContainerOsVersion,
 		DockerVersion:      vi.DockerVersion,
+		DockerAPIVersion:   vi.DockerAPIVersion,
 		CadvisorVersion:    vi.CadvisorVersion,
 		NumCores:           mi.NumCores,
 		CpuFrequency:       mi.CpuFrequency,
diff --git a/manager/manager.go b/manager/manager.go
index 4de5e650d7..dc5273ac86 100644
--- a/manager/manager.go
+++ b/manager/manager.go
@@ -1255,11 +1255,13 @@ func getVersionInfo() (*info.VersionInfo, error) {
 	kernel_version := machine.KernelVersion()
 	container_os := machine.ContainerOsVersion()
 	docker_version := docker.VersionString()
+	docker_api_version := docker.APIVersionString()
 
 	return &info.VersionInfo{
 		KernelVersion:      kernel_version,
 		ContainerOsVersion: container_os,
 		DockerVersion:      docker_version,
+		DockerAPIVersion:   docker_api_version,
 		CadvisorVersion:    version.Info["version"],
 		CadvisorRevision:   version.Info["revision"],
 	}, nil
diff --git a/pages/docker.go b/pages/docker.go
index 8cc0177c96..3d40e2f662 100644
--- a/pages/docker.go
+++ b/pages/docker.go
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ func toStatusKV(status info.DockerStatus) ([]keyVal, []keyVal) {
 	}
 	return []keyVal{
 		{Key: "Docker Version", Value: status.Version},
+		{Key: "Docker API Version", Value: status.APIVersion},
 		{Key: "Kernel Version", Value: status.KernelVersion},
 		{Key: "OS Version", Value: status.OS},
 		{Key: "Host Name", Value: status.Hostname},