diff --git a/aiservices/openai/src/main/java/com/microsoft/semantickernel/aiservices/openai/implementation/OpenAIRequestSettings.java b/aiservices/openai/src/main/java/com/microsoft/semantickernel/aiservices/openai/implementation/OpenAIRequestSettings.java
index 8da85ed9..35d0d3f3 100644
--- a/aiservices/openai/src/main/java/com/microsoft/semantickernel/aiservices/openai/implementation/OpenAIRequestSettings.java
+++ b/aiservices/openai/src/main/java/com/microsoft/semantickernel/aiservices/openai/implementation/OpenAIRequestSettings.java
@@ -20,16 +20,26 @@ public final class OpenAIRequestSettings {
 
     private static final String SEMANTIC_KERNEL_VERSION_PROPERTY_NAME = "semantic-kernel.version";
     private static final String SEMANTIC_KERNEL_VERSION_PROPERTIES_FILE = "semantic-kernel-version.properties";
-    private static final String useragent;
 
+    private static final String useragent;
     private static final String header;
 
+    public static final String SEMANTIC_KERNEL_DISABLE_USERAGENT_PROPERTY = "semantic-kernel.useragent-disable";
+
+    private static final boolean disabled;
+
     static {
+        disabled = isDisabled();
         String version = loadVersion();
         useragent = "semantic-kernel-java/" + version;
         header = "java/" + version;
     }
 
+    private static boolean isDisabled() {
+        return Boolean.parseBoolean(
+            System.getProperty(SEMANTIC_KERNEL_DISABLE_USERAGENT_PROPERTY, "false"));
+    }
+
     private static String loadVersion() {
 
         String version = "unknown";
@@ -58,9 +68,14 @@ private static String loadVersion() {
      * @return The request options
      */
     public static RequestOptions getRequestOptions() {
-        return new RequestOptions()
+        RequestOptions requestOptions = new RequestOptions();
+
+        if (disabled) {
+            return requestOptions;
+        }
+
+        return requestOptions
             .setHeader(HttpHeaderName.fromString("Semantic-Kernel-Version"), header)
-            .setContext(
-                new Context(UserAgentPolicy.APPEND_USER_AGENT_CONTEXT_KEY, useragent));
+            .setContext(new Context(UserAgentPolicy.APPEND_USER_AGENT_CONTEXT_KEY, useragent));
     }
 }
diff --git a/samples/semantickernel-concepts/semantickernel-syntax-examples/src/main/java/com/microsoft/semantickernel/samples/syntaxexamples/memory/InMemory_DataStorage.java b/samples/semantickernel-concepts/semantickernel-syntax-examples/src/main/java/com/microsoft/semantickernel/samples/syntaxexamples/memory/InMemory_DataStorage.java
index b189081b..d92c1e06 100644
--- a/samples/semantickernel-concepts/semantickernel-syntax-examples/src/main/java/com/microsoft/semantickernel/samples/syntaxexamples/memory/InMemory_DataStorage.java
+++ b/samples/semantickernel-concepts/semantickernel-syntax-examples/src/main/java/com/microsoft/semantickernel/samples/syntaxexamples/memory/InMemory_DataStorage.java
@@ -105,7 +105,8 @@ public static void main(String[] args) {
         inMemoryDataStorage(embeddingGeneration);
     }
 
-    public static void inMemoryDataStorage(OpenAITextEmbeddingGenerationService embeddingGeneration) {
+    public static void inMemoryDataStorage(
+        OpenAITextEmbeddingGenerationService embeddingGeneration) {
         // Create a new Volatile vector store
         var volatileVectorStore = new VolatileVectorStore();