diff --git a/metrics/sources/summary/summary.go b/metrics/sources/summary/summary.go
index 8a7bf1a846..7ebf1bbc2e 100644
--- a/metrics/sources/summary/summary.go
+++ b/metrics/sources/summary/summary.go
@@ -197,10 +197,10 @@ func (this *summaryMetricsSource) decodePodStats(metrics map[string]*MetricSet,
 		// This check ensures that we are not replacing metrics of running container with metrics of terminated one if
 		// there are two exactly same containers reported by kubelet.
 		if _, exist := metrics[key]; exist {
-			glog.V(8).Infof("Metrics reported from two containers with the same key: %v. Create time of "+
+			glog.V(2).Infof("Metrics reported from two containers with the same key: %v. Create time of "+
 				"containers are %v and %v. Metrics from the older container are going to be dropped.", key,
 				container.StartTime.Time, metrics[key].CreateTime)
-			if containerIsTerminated(&container, metrics[key].CreateTime) {
+			if container.StartTime.Time.Before(metrics[key].CreateTime) {
 				continue
 			}
 		}
@@ -208,16 +208,6 @@ func (this *summaryMetricsSource) decodePodStats(metrics map[string]*MetricSet,
 	}
 }
 
-func containerIsTerminated(container *stats.ContainerStats, otherStartTime time.Time) bool {
-	if container.StartTime.Time.Before(otherStartTime) {
-		if *container.CPU.UsageNanoCores == 0 && *container.Memory.RSSBytes == 0 {
-			return true
-		}
-		glog.Warningf("Two identical containers are reported and the older one is not terminated: %v", container)
-	}
-	return false
-}
-
 func (this *summaryMetricsSource) decodeContainerStats(podLabels map[string]string, container *stats.ContainerStats, isSystemContainer bool) *MetricSet {
 	glog.V(9).Infof("Decoding container stats stats for container %s...", container.Name)
 	containerMetrics := &MetricSet{