diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 29973aface4..c55f1621737 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -615,6 +615,9 @@ Release 2.0.5-beta - UNRELEASED
     and RandomAccessFile) in SecureIOUtils so as to help YARN-578. (Omkar Vinit
     Joshi via vinodkv)
 
+    HADOOP-9560. metrics2#JvmMetrics should have max memory size of JVM.
+    (Tsuyoshi Ozawa via suresh)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-9150. Avoid unnecessary DNS resolution attempts for logical URIs
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/metrics2/source/JvmMetrics.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/metrics2/source/JvmMetrics.java
index f436a667f90..a59fff347b3 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/metrics2/source/JvmMetrics.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/metrics2/source/JvmMetrics.java
@@ -98,10 +98,12 @@ public class JvmMetrics implements MetricsSource {
   private void getMemoryUsage(MetricsRecordBuilder rb) {
     MemoryUsage memNonHeap = memoryMXBean.getNonHeapMemoryUsage();
     MemoryUsage memHeap = memoryMXBean.getHeapMemoryUsage();
+    Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
     rb.addGauge(MemNonHeapUsedM, memNonHeap.getUsed() / M)
       .addGauge(MemNonHeapCommittedM, memNonHeap.getCommitted() / M)
       .addGauge(MemHeapUsedM, memHeap.getUsed() / M)
-      .addGauge(MemHeapCommittedM, memHeap.getCommitted() / M);
+      .addGauge(MemHeapCommittedM, memHeap.getCommitted() / M)
+      .addGauge(MemMaxM, runtime.maxMemory() / M);
   }
 
   private void getGcUsage(MetricsRecordBuilder rb) {
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/metrics2/source/JvmMetricsInfo.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/metrics2/source/JvmMetricsInfo.java
index 83729b190de..e2f61e2d08e 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/metrics2/source/JvmMetricsInfo.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/metrics2/source/JvmMetricsInfo.java
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ public enum JvmMetricsInfo implements MetricsInfo {
   MemNonHeapCommittedM("Non-heap memory committed in MB"),
   MemHeapUsedM("Heap memory used in MB"),
   MemHeapCommittedM("Heap memory committed in MB"),
+  MemMaxM("Max memory size in MB"),
   GcCount("Total GC count"),
   GcTimeMillis("Total GC time in milliseconds"),
   ThreadsNew("Number of new threads"),