diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
index b864f83e..e26ba130 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ aliases:
 
 ## tip
 
+- [vmoperator](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/operator/): add missing `container` labels to the metrics discovered with `VMServiceScrape` for `endpointslices` discovery role.
 - [vmoperator](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/operator/): bump default version of VictoriaMetrics components to [1.106.1](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases/tag/v1.106.1).
 - [vmoperator](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/operator/): add new variable `VM_VMSERVICESCRAPEDEFAULT_ENFORCEENDPOINTSLICES` to use `endpointslices` instead of `endpoints` as discovery role for VMServiceScrape when generate scrape config for VMAgent.
 
diff --git a/internal/controller/operator/factory/vmagent/servicescrape.go b/internal/controller/operator/factory/vmagent/servicescrape.go
index d64d726c..a85bbca5 100644
--- a/internal/controller/operator/factory/vmagent/servicescrape.go
+++ b/internal/controller/operator/factory/vmagent/servicescrape.go
@@ -116,6 +116,10 @@ func generateServiceScrapeConfig(
 				{Key: "source_labels", Value: []string{"__meta_kubernetes_pod_name"}},
 				{Key: "target_label", Value: "pod"},
 			},
+			{
+				{Key: "source_labels", Value: []string{"__meta_kubernetes_pod_container_name"}},
+				{Key: "target_label", Value: "container"},
+			},
 		}...)
 	case kubernetesSDRoleEndpoint:
 		// Relabel namespace and pod and service labels into proper labels.
diff --git a/internal/controller/operator/factory/vmagent/servicescrape_test.go b/internal/controller/operator/factory/vmagent/servicescrape_test.go
index 98be68ce..a8a4c0ba 100644
--- a/internal/controller/operator/factory/vmagent/servicescrape_test.go
+++ b/internal/controller/operator/factory/vmagent/servicescrape_test.go
@@ -440,6 +440,9 @@ relabel_configs:
 - source_labels:
   - __meta_kubernetes_pod_name
   target_label: pod
+- source_labels:
+  - __meta_kubernetes_pod_container_name
+  target_label: container
 - source_labels:
   - __meta_kubernetes_namespace
   target_label: namespace