diff --git a/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-ddprof/src/main/java/com/datadog/profiling/ddprof/DatadogProfilerConfig.java b/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-ddprof/src/main/java/com/datadog/profiling/ddprof/DatadogProfilerConfig.java
index d023d13b219..f9b980f486e 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-ddprof/src/main/java/com/datadog/profiling/ddprof/DatadogProfilerConfig.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-ddprof/src/main/java/com/datadog/profiling/ddprof/DatadogProfilerConfig.java
@@ -142,7 +142,25 @@ public static boolean getWallCollapsing(ConfigProvider configProvider) {
         PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_WALL_COLLAPSING_DEFAULT);
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Checks whether the wall-clock context filter should be used.<br>
+   * The context filter will make wall-clock profiler to pick candidate threads only from threads
+   * with attached tracing context.<br>
+   * If context filter is not used (this method returns {@literal false}) all threads will be
+   * considered for wallclock sampling.
+   *
+   * @param configProvider the associated config provider
+   * @return {@literal true} if the wallclock sampler should use context filtering, {@literal false}
+   *     otherwise
+   */
   public static boolean getWallContextFilter(ConfigProvider configProvider) {
+    // Context filtering requires tracing to be enabled - without tracing,
+    // there are no span contexts to filter on, so threads would never be added
+    // to the filter, resulting in no walltime samples.
+    boolean isTracingEnabled = configProvider.getBoolean(TRACE_ENABLED, true);
+    if (!isTracingEnabled) {
+      return false;
+    }
     return getBoolean(
         configProvider,
         PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_WALL_CONTEXT_FILTER,
diff --git a/dd-smoke-tests/profiling-integration-tests/src/test/java/datadog/smoketest/JFRBasedProfilingIntegrationTest.java b/dd-smoke-tests/profiling-integration-tests/src/test/java/datadog/smoketest/JFRBasedProfilingIntegrationTest.java
index 5030247339d..65bf000c82e 100644
--- a/dd-smoke-tests/profiling-integration-tests/src/test/java/datadog/smoketest/JFRBasedProfilingIntegrationTest.java
+++ b/dd-smoke-tests/profiling-integration-tests/src/test/java/datadog/smoketest/JFRBasedProfilingIntegrationTest.java
@@ -491,6 +491,80 @@ void testBogusApiKey(final TestInfo testInfo) throws Exception {
         3);
   }
 
+  @Test
+  @DisplayName("Test wallclock profiling without tracing")
+  public void testWallclockProfilingWithoutTracing(final TestInfo testInfo) throws Exception {
+    Assumptions.assumeTrue(OperatingSystem.isLinux());
+    testWithRetry(
+        () -> {
+          try {
+            targetProcess =
+                createProcessBuilder(
+                        profilingServer.getPort(),
+                        tracingServer.getPort(),
+                        VALID_API_KEY,
+                        0,
+                        PROFILING_START_DELAY_SECONDS,
+                        PROFILING_UPLOAD_PERIOD_SECONDS,
+                        false,
+                        true,
+                        "on",
+                        0,
+                        logFilePath,
+                        false)
+                    .start();
+
+            Assumptions.assumeFalse(JavaVirtualMachine.isJ9());
+
+            final RecordedRequest request = retrieveRequest();
+            assertNotNull(request);
+
+            final List<FileItem> items =
+                FileUpload.parse(
+                    request.getBody().readByteArray(), request.getHeader("Content-Type"));
+
+            FileItem rawJfr = items.get(1);
+            assertEquals("main.jfr", rawJfr.getName());
+
+            assertFalse(logHasErrors(logFilePath));
+            InputStream eventStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(rawJfr.get());
+            eventStream = decompressStream("on", eventStream);
+            IItemCollection events = JfrLoaderToolkit.loadEvents(eventStream);
+            assertTrue(events.hasItems());
+
+            IItemCollection wallclockSamples =
+                events.apply(ItemFilters.type("datadog.MethodSample"));
+            assertTrue(
+                wallclockSamples.hasItems(), "Expected wallclock samples when tracing is disabled");
+
+            // Verify span context is not present
+            for (IItemIterable event : wallclockSamples) {
+              IMemberAccessor<IQuantity, IItem> rootSpanIdAccessor =
+                  LOCAL_ROOT_SPAN_ID.getAccessor(event.getType());
+              IMemberAccessor<IQuantity, IItem> spanIdAccessor =
+                  SPAN_ID.getAccessor(event.getType());
+              for (IItem sample : event) {
+                assertEquals(
+                    0,
+                    rootSpanIdAccessor.getMember(sample).longValue(),
+                    "rootSpanId should be 0 when tracing is disabled");
+                assertEquals(
+                    0,
+                    spanIdAccessor.getMember(sample).longValue(),
+                    "spanId should be 0 when tracing is disabled");
+              }
+            }
+          } finally {
+            if (targetProcess != null) {
+              targetProcess.destroyForcibly();
+            }
+            targetProcess = null;
+          }
+        },
+        testInfo,
+        3);
+  }
+
   @Test
   @DisplayName("Test shutdown")
   @Disabled("https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-java/pull/5213")
@@ -771,7 +845,8 @@ private ProcessBuilder createProcessBuilder(
         asyncProfilerEnabled,
         withCompression,
         exitDelay,
-        logFilePath);
+        logFilePath,
+        true);
   }
 
   private static ProcessBuilder createProcessBuilder(
@@ -785,7 +860,8 @@ private static ProcessBuilder createProcessBuilder(
       final boolean asyncProfilerEnabled,
       final String withCompression,
       final int exitDelay,
-      final Path logFilePath) {
+      final Path logFilePath,
+      final boolean tracingEnabled) {
     final String templateOverride =
         JFRBasedProfilingIntegrationTest.class
             .getClassLoader()
@@ -803,6 +879,7 @@ private static ProcessBuilder createProcessBuilder(
             "-Ddd.service.name=smoke-test-java-app",
             "-Ddd.env=smoketest",
             "-Ddd.version=99",
+            "-Ddd.trace.enabled=" + tracingEnabled,
             "-Ddd.profiling.enabled=true",
             "-Ddd.profiling.stackdepth=" + STACK_DEPTH_LIMIT,
             "-Ddd.profiling.ddprof.enabled=" + asyncProfilerEnabled,