diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/podman/conmon.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/podman/conmon.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0d29bf33a562
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/podman/conmon.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{ stdenv, lib, fetchFromGitHub, pkgconfig, glib }:
+
+with lib;
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "conmon-${version}";
+  version = "unstable-2018-11-28";
+  rev = "8fba206232c249a8fc4e2fac1469fb2fddbf5cf7";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "containers";
+    repo = "conmon";
+    sha256 = "07ar0dk9i072b14f6il51yqahxp5c4fkf5jzar8rxcpvymkdy8zq";
+    inherit rev;
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
+  buildInputs = [
+    glib
+  ];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    install -D -m 755 bin/conmon $out/bin/conmon
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = https://github.com/containers/conmon;
+    description = "An OCI container runtime monitor";
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ vdemeester ];
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 0562410f9142..5845034781a9 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4966,6 +4966,7 @@ in
 
   podiff = callPackage ../tools/text/podiff { };
 
+  conmon = callPackage ../applications/virtualization/podman/conmon.nix { };
   pod2mdoc = callPackage ../tools/misc/pod2mdoc { };
 
   poedit = callPackage ../tools/text/poedit { };