diff --git a/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-controller/src/main/java/com/datadog/profiling/controller/ProfilerSettingsSupport.java b/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-controller/src/main/java/com/datadog/profiling/controller/ProfilerSettingsSupport.java
index 07dc8cec331..3593b4f2236 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-controller/src/main/java/com/datadog/profiling/controller/ProfilerSettingsSupport.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-controller/src/main/java/com/datadog/profiling/controller/ProfilerSettingsSupport.java
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 import datadog.trace.api.Platform;
 import datadog.trace.api.config.ProfilingConfig;
 import datadog.trace.bootstrap.config.provider.ConfigProvider;
+import datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentTracer;
+import datadog.trace.context.TraceScope;
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
@@ -116,7 +118,7 @@ protected ProfilerSettingsSupport(ConfigProvider configProvider) {
   private String getSELinuxStatus() {
     String value = "Not present";
     if (Platform.isLinux()) {
-      try {
+      try (final TraceScope scope = AgentTracer.get().muteTracing()) {
         ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("getenforce");
         Process process = pb.start();
         // wait for at most 500ms for the process to finish
diff --git a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/java-lang/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/java/lang/ProcessImplStartAdvice.java b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/java-lang/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/java/lang/ProcessImplStartAdvice.java
index c03861099b3..28963f53b33 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/java-lang/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/java/lang/ProcessImplStartAdvice.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/java-lang/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/java/lang/ProcessImplStartAdvice.java
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 package datadog.trace.instrumentation.java.lang;
 
-import static datadog.trace.util.AgentThreadFactory.AGENT_THREAD_GROUP;
-
 import datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentSpan;
 import datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentTracer;
 import datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.java.lang.ProcessImplInstrumentationHelpers;
@@ -19,11 +17,6 @@ public static AgentSpan startSpan(@Advice.Argument(0) final String[] command) th
       return null;
     }
 
-    // Don't create spans for agent threads
-    if (AGENT_THREAD_GROUP.equals(Thread.currentThread().getThreadGroup())) {
-      return null;
-    }
-
     final AgentTracer.TracerAPI tracer = AgentTracer.get();
     final AgentSpan span = tracer.startSpan("appsec", "command_execution");
     span.setSpanType("system");
diff --git a/internal-api/src/main/java/datadog/trace/api/Config.java b/internal-api/src/main/java/datadog/trace/api/Config.java
index 181de5b2cd4..cf0b69509c0 100644
--- a/internal-api/src/main/java/datadog/trace/api/Config.java
+++ b/internal-api/src/main/java/datadog/trace/api/Config.java
@@ -447,6 +447,8 @@
 import datadog.trace.bootstrap.config.provider.CapturedEnvironmentConfigSource;
 import datadog.trace.bootstrap.config.provider.ConfigProvider;
 import datadog.trace.bootstrap.config.provider.SystemPropertiesConfigSource;
+import datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentTracer;
+import datadog.trace.context.TraceScope;
 import datadog.trace.util.PidHelper;
 import datadog.trace.util.Strings;
 import datadog.trace.util.throwable.FatalAgentMisconfigurationError;
@@ -3848,9 +3850,10 @@ static String initHostName() {
     }
 
     // Try hostname command
-    try (final BufferedReader reader =
-        new BufferedReader(
-            new InputStreamReader(Runtime.getRuntime().exec("hostname").getInputStream()))) {
+    try (final TraceScope scope = AgentTracer.get().muteTracing();
+        final BufferedReader reader =
+            new BufferedReader(
+                new InputStreamReader(Runtime.getRuntime().exec("hostname").getInputStream()))) {
       possibleHostname = reader.readLine();
     } catch (final Throwable ignore) {
       // Ignore.  Hostname command is not always available