diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 37d533c70e3..1c72e1fbe51 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -174,6 +174,10 @@ Release 0.23.2 - UNRELEASED
 
     MAPREDUCE-3910. Fixed a bug in CapacityScheduler LeafQueue which was causing
     app-submission to fail. (John George via vinodkv)
+
+    MAPREDUCE-3686. Fixed two bugs in Counters because of which web app displays
+    zero counter values for framework counters. (Bhallamudi Venkata Siva Kamesh
+    via vinodkv)
  
 Release 0.23.1 - 2012-02-17 
 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/counters/AbstractCounters.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/counters/AbstractCounters.java
index 73434ae9bdb..768f1c782e9 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/counters/AbstractCounters.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/counters/AbstractCounters.java
@@ -326,12 +326,10 @@ public abstract class AbstractCounters<C extends Counter,
    */
   public synchronized void incrAllCounters(AbstractCounters<C, G> other) {
     for(G right : other) {
-      G left = groups.get(right.getName());
+      String groupName = right.getName();
+      G left = (isFrameworkGroup(groupName) ? fgroups : groups).get(groupName);
       if (left == null) {
-        limits.checkGroups(groups.size() + 1);
-        left = groupFactory.newGroup(right.getName(), right.getDisplayName(),
-                                     limits);
-        groups.put(right.getName(), left);
+        left = addGroup(groupName, right.getDisplayName());
       }
       left.incrAllCounters(right);
     }
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/counters/CounterGroupFactory.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/counters/CounterGroupFactory.java
index a402f741085..7f392f2cb5d 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/counters/CounterGroupFactory.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/counters/CounterGroupFactory.java
@@ -107,6 +107,8 @@ public abstract class CounterGroupFactory<C extends Counter,
     if (gf != null) return gf.newGroup(name);
     if (name.equals(FS_GROUP_NAME)) {
       return newFileSystemGroup();
+    } else if (s2i.get(name) != null) {
+      return newFrameworkGroup(s2i.get(name));
     }
     return newGenericGroup(name, displayName, limits);
   }
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/TestCounters.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/TestCounters.java
index ccdf516d18c..7b85bd40ba0 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/TestCounters.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/TestCounters.java
@@ -70,6 +70,29 @@ public class TestCounters {
       testMaxGroups(new Counters());
     }
   }
+  
+  @Test
+  public void testCountersIncrement() {
+    Counters fCounters = new Counters();
+    Counter fCounter = fCounters.findCounter(FRAMEWORK_COUNTER);
+    fCounter.setValue(100);
+    Counter gCounter = fCounters.findCounter("test", "foo");
+    gCounter.setValue(200);
+
+    Counters counters = new Counters();
+    counters.incrAllCounters(fCounters);
+    Counter counter;
+    for (CounterGroup cg : fCounters) {
+      CounterGroup group = counters.getGroup(cg.getName());
+      if (group.getName().equals("test")) {
+        counter = counters.findCounter("test", "foo");
+        assertEquals(200, counter.getValue());
+      } else {
+        counter = counters.findCounter(FRAMEWORK_COUNTER);
+        assertEquals(100, counter.getValue());
+      }
+    }
+  }
 
   static final Enum<?> FRAMEWORK_COUNTER = TaskCounter.CPU_MILLISECONDS;
   static final long FRAMEWORK_COUNTER_VALUE = 8;