diff --git a/cmd/crioctl/container.go b/cmd/crioctl/container.go
index 693804d0..20ba367b 100644
--- a/cmd/crioctl/container.go
+++ b/cmd/crioctl/container.go
@@ -460,6 +460,9 @@ func ContainerStatus(client pb.RuntimeServiceClient, ID string) error {
 	ftm := time.Unix(0, r.Status.FinishedAt)
 	fmt.Printf("Finished: %v\n", ftm)
 	fmt.Printf("Exit Code: %v\n", r.Status.ExitCode)
+	if r.Status.Image != nil {
+		fmt.Printf("Image: %v\n", r.Status.Image.Image)
+	}
 
 	return nil
 }
diff --git a/server/container_status.go b/server/container_status.go
index febe7060..5e7b2b22 100644
--- a/server/container_status.go
+++ b/server/container_status.go
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@ package server
 
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
 
 	"github.com/Sirupsen/logrus"
+	"github.com/docker/distribution/reference"
 	"github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o/oci"
 	rspec "github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/specs-go"
 	"golang.org/x/net/context"
@@ -24,14 +26,12 @@ func (s *Server) ContainerStatus(ctx context.Context, req *pb.ContainerStatusReq
 	s.containerStateToDisk(c)
 
 	containerID := c.ID()
-	image := c.Image()
 	resp := &pb.ContainerStatusResponse{
 		Status: &pb.ContainerStatus{
 			Id:          containerID,
 			Metadata:    c.Metadata(),
 			Labels:      c.Labels(),
 			Annotations: c.Annotations(),
-			Image:       image,
 		},
 	}
 
@@ -41,13 +41,28 @@ func (s *Server) ContainerStatus(ctx context.Context, req *pb.ContainerStatusReq
 	}
 	resp.Status.Mounts = mounts
 
-	status, err := s.storageImageServer.ImageStatus(s.imageContext, image.Image)
+	imageName := c.Image().Image
+	status, err := s.storageImageServer.ImageStatus(s.imageContext, imageName)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
+	// TODO: use status.ID only if no digested names!!!
+	// need to modify ImageStatus to split tagged and digested!
 	resp.Status.ImageRef = status.ID
 
+	for _, n := range status.Names {
+		r, err := reference.ParseNormalizedNamed(n)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to normalize image name for Image: %v", err)
+		}
+		if tagged, isTagged := r.(reference.Tagged); isTagged {
+			imageName = reference.FamiliarString(tagged)
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	resp.Status.Image = &pb.ImageSpec{Image: imageName}
+
 	cState := s.runtime.ContainerStatus(c)
 	rStatus := pb.ContainerState_CONTAINER_UNKNOWN
 
diff --git a/test/image.bats b/test/image.bats
index ebad58fc..3dc50416 100644
--- a/test/image.bats
+++ b/test/image.bats
@@ -23,6 +23,31 @@ function teardown() {
 	stop_crio
 }
 
+@test "container status return image:tag if created by image ID" {
+	start_crio
+
+	run crioctl pod run --config "$TESTDATA"/sandbox_config.json
+	echo "$output"
+	[ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+	pod_id="$output"
+
+	sed -e "s/%VALUE%/$REDIS_IMAGEID/g" "$TESTDATA"/container_config_by_imageid.json > "$TESTDIR"/ctr_by_imageid.json
+
+	run crioctl ctr create --config "$TESTDIR"/ctr_by_imageid.json --pod "$pod_id"
+	echo "$output"
+	[ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+	ctr_id="$output"
+
+	run crioctl ctr status --id "$ctr_id"
+	echo "$output"
+	[ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+	[[ "$output" =~ "Image: redis:alpine" ]]
+
+	cleanup_ctrs
+	cleanup_pods
+	stop_crio
+}
+
 @test "image pull" {
 	start_crio "" "" --no-pause-image
 	run crioctl image pull "$IMAGE"