diff --git a/pkg/runtime/runtime.go b/pkg/runtime/runtime.go
index 135adc8b7..19440e838 100644
--- a/pkg/runtime/runtime.go
+++ b/pkg/runtime/runtime.go
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ func (m *containerRuntimeManager) getCgroupName(pod *v1.Pod, containerID string)
 
 	switch m.cgroupDriver {
 	case "systemd":
-		return fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s-%s.scope", cgroupName.ToSystemd(), m.runtimeName, containerID), nil
+		return fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s-%s.scope", cgroupName.ToSystemd(), cgroup.SystemdPathPrefixOfRuntime(m.runtimeName), containerID), nil
 	case "cgroupfs":
 		return fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s", cgroupName.ToCgroupfs(), containerID), nil
 	default:
diff --git a/pkg/utils/cgroup/cgroup.go b/pkg/utils/cgroup/cgroup.go
index 38ce08dc0..048a524a3 100644
--- a/pkg/utils/cgroup/cgroup.go
+++ b/pkg/utils/cgroup/cgroup.go
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 
 	cgroupsystemd "github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/cgroups/systemd"
+
+	"k8s.io/klog"
 )
 
 // CgroupName is the abstract name of a cgroup prior to any driver specific conversion.
@@ -66,3 +68,15 @@ func escapeSystemdCgroupName(part string) string {
 func (cgroupName CgroupName) ToCgroupfs() string {
 	return "/" + path.Join(cgroupName...)
 }
+
+func SystemdPathPrefixOfRuntime(runtimeName string) string {
+	switch runtimeName {
+	case "cri-o":
+		return "crio"
+	case "containerd":
+		return "cri-containerd"
+	default:
+		klog.Infof("prefix of container runtime %s was not tested. Maybe not correct!", runtimeName)
+		return runtimeName
+	}
+}