diff --git a/src/elasticotel/distro/__init__.py b/src/elasticotel/distro/__init__.py
index 396496ee..b26073b1 100644
--- a/src/elasticotel/distro/__init__.py
+++ b/src/elasticotel/distro/__init__.py
@@ -119,6 +119,13 @@ def _configure(self, **kwargs):
         os.environ.setdefault(OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER, "parentbased_traceidratio")
         os.environ.setdefault(OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER_ARG, "1.0")
 
-        base_resource_detectors = ["process_runtime", "os", "otel", "telemetry_distro", "service_instance"]
+        base_resource_detectors = [
+            "process_runtime",
+            "os",
+            "otel",
+            "telemetry_distro",
+            "service_instance",
+            "containerid",
+        ]
         detectors = base_resource_detectors + get_cloud_resource_detectors()
         os.environ.setdefault(OTEL_EXPERIMENTAL_RESOURCE_DETECTORS, ",".join(detectors))
diff --git a/tests/distro/test_distro.py b/tests/distro/test_distro.py
index d35671ee..bc3a2b02 100644
--- a/tests/distro/test_distro.py
+++ b/tests/distro/test_distro.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ def test_default_configuration(self):
         self.assertEqual("otlp", os.environ.get(OTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER))
         self.assertEqual("grpc", os.environ.get(OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL))
         self.assertEqual(
-            "process_runtime,os,otel,telemetry_distro,service_instance,_gcp,aws_ec2,aws_ecs,aws_elastic_beanstalk,azure_app_service,azure_vm",
+            "process_runtime,os,otel,telemetry_distro,service_instance,containerid,_gcp,aws_ec2,aws_ecs,aws_elastic_beanstalk,azure_app_service,azure_vm",
             os.environ.get(OTEL_EXPERIMENTAL_RESOURCE_DETECTORS),
         )
         self.assertEqual("always_off", os.environ.get(OTEL_METRICS_EXEMPLAR_FILTER))
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_integration.py b/tests/integration/test_integration.py
index 48c8bfbb..a32e5ea0 100644
--- a/tests/integration/test_integration.py
+++ b/tests/integration/test_integration.py
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
 
 import pytest
 
+from opentelemetry.resource.detector.containerid import (
+    ContainerResourceDetector,
+)
+
 from .utils import ElasticIntegrationTestCase, OTEL_INSTRUMENTATION_VERSION, ROOT_DIR
 
 
@@ -49,6 +53,10 @@ def test_traces_default_resource_attributes(self):
         self.assertTrue(resource["os.type"])
         self.assertTrue(resource["os.version"])
 
+        container_id = ContainerResourceDetector().detect().attributes.get("container.id")
+        if container_id:
+            self.assertEqual(resource["container.id"], container_id)
+
     def test_traces_sets_resource_attributes_from_env(self):
         env = {"OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES": "service.name=my-service"}
         stdout, stderr, returncode = self.run_script(