diff --git a/source/code/plugin/DockerApiClient.rb b/source/code/plugin/DockerApiClient.rb
index d04bf0589..5a46b5fdb 100644
--- a/source/code/plugin/DockerApiClient.rb
+++ b/source/code/plugin/DockerApiClient.rb
@@ -89,10 +89,18 @@ def listContainers()
                     labels = (!container['Labels'].nil?)? container['Labels'] : container['labels']
                     if !labels.nil?
                         labelKeys = labels.keys
-                        #Case insensitive lookup for pod uid label
-                        keyValue = labelKeys.find {|k| 'io.kubernetes.pod.uid'.downcase == k.downcase}
-                        if !labels[keyValue].nil?
-                            ids.push(container['Id'])
+                        dockerTypeLabel = labelKeys.find {|k| 'io.kubernetes.docker.type'.downcase == k.downcase}
+                        if !dockerTypeLabel.nil?
+                            dockerTypeLabelValue = labels[dockerTypeLabel]
+                            # Checking for 'io.kubernetes.docker.type' label for docker containers to exclude the pause-amd64 containers
+                            if !(dockerTypeLabelValue.downcase == "podsandbox".downcase)
+                                # Case insensitive lookup for pod uid label - This is to exclude containers created using docker run and only include containers that 
+                                # are created in the pods for ContainerInventory
+                                keyValue = labelKeys.find {|k| 'io.kubernetes.pod.uid'.downcase == k.downcase}
+                                if !labels[keyValue].nil?
+                                    ids.push(container['Id'])
+                                end
+                            end
                         end
                     end
                 end