diff --git a/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-ddprof/src/main/java/com/datadog/profiling/ddprof/DatadogProfiler.java b/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-ddprof/src/main/java/com/datadog/profiling/ddprof/DatadogProfiler.java
index 68ee109a137..0d68e2e0c3f 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-ddprof/src/main/java/com/datadog/profiling/ddprof/DatadogProfiler.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-ddprof/src/main/java/com/datadog/profiling/ddprof/DatadogProfiler.java
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 import static com.datadog.profiling.ddprof.DatadogProfilerConfig.getCpuInterval;
 import static com.datadog.profiling.ddprof.DatadogProfilerConfig.getLiveHeapSamplePercent;
 import static com.datadog.profiling.ddprof.DatadogProfilerConfig.getLogLevel;
+import static com.datadog.profiling.ddprof.DatadogProfilerConfig.getNativeMemoryInterval;
 import static com.datadog.profiling.ddprof.DatadogProfilerConfig.getSafeMode;
 import static com.datadog.profiling.ddprof.DatadogProfilerConfig.getSchedulingEvent;
 import static com.datadog.profiling.ddprof.DatadogProfilerConfig.getSchedulingEventInterval;
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@
 import static com.datadog.profiling.ddprof.DatadogProfilerConfig.isCpuProfilerEnabled;
 import static com.datadog.profiling.ddprof.DatadogProfilerConfig.isLiveHeapSizeTrackingEnabled;
 import static com.datadog.profiling.ddprof.DatadogProfilerConfig.isMemoryLeakProfilingEnabled;
+import static com.datadog.profiling.ddprof.DatadogProfilerConfig.isNativeMemoryProfilingEnabled;
 import static com.datadog.profiling.ddprof.DatadogProfilerConfig.isResourceNameContextAttributeEnabled;
 import static com.datadog.profiling.ddprof.DatadogProfilerConfig.isSpanNameContextAttributeEnabled;
 import static com.datadog.profiling.ddprof.DatadogProfilerConfig.isTrackingGenerations;
@@ -26,6 +28,7 @@
 import static com.datadog.profiling.utils.ProfilingMode.ALLOCATION;
 import static com.datadog.profiling.utils.ProfilingMode.CPU;
 import static com.datadog.profiling.utils.ProfilingMode.MEMLEAK;
+import static com.datadog.profiling.utils.ProfilingMode.NATIVEMEM;
 import static com.datadog.profiling.utils.ProfilingMode.WALL;
 import static datadog.trace.api.config.ProfilingConfig.PROFILING_DETAILED_DEBUG_LOGGING;
 import static datadog.trace.api.config.ProfilingConfig.PROFILING_DETAILED_DEBUG_LOGGING_DEFAULT;
@@ -237,6 +240,9 @@ private DatadogProfiler(ConfigProvider configProvider) {
     if (isWallClockProfilerEnabled(configProvider)) {
       profilingModes.add(WALL);
     }
+    if (isNativeMemoryProfilingEnabled(configProvider)) {
+      profilingModes.add(NATIVEMEM);
+    }
     Set<String> contextAttributes = getContextAttributes(configProvider);
     this.orderedContextAttributes = getOrderedContextAttributes(contextAttributes, configProvider);
     this.contextSetter = new ContextSetter(profiler, orderedContextAttributes);
@@ -459,6 +465,10 @@ String cmdStartProfiling(Path file) throws IllegalStateException {
             .append(String.format("%.2f", getLiveHeapSamplePercent(configProvider) / 100.0d));
       }
     }
+    if (profilingModes.contains(NATIVEMEM)) {
+      // native memory (malloc) profiling is enabled
+      cmd.append(",nativemem=").append(getNativeMemoryInterval(configProvider));
+    }
     String cmdString = cmd.toString();
     log.debug("Datadog profiler command line: {}", cmdString);
     return cmdString;
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 8582e27c853..c95db897fb3 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
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@
 import static datadog.trace.api.config.ProfilingConfig.PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_MEMLEAK_CAPACITY;
 import static datadog.trace.api.config.ProfilingConfig.PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_MEMLEAK_ENABLED;
 import static datadog.trace.api.config.ProfilingConfig.PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_MEMLEAK_INTERVAL;
+import static datadog.trace.api.config.ProfilingConfig.PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_NATIVEMEM_ENABLED;
+import static datadog.trace.api.config.ProfilingConfig.PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_NATIVEMEM_ENABLED_DEFAULT;
+import static datadog.trace.api.config.ProfilingConfig.PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_NATIVEMEM_INTERVAL;
+import static datadog.trace.api.config.ProfilingConfig.PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_NATIVEMEM_INTERVAL_DEFAULT;
 import static datadog.trace.api.config.ProfilingConfig.PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_SAFEMODE;
 import static datadog.trace.api.config.ProfilingConfig.PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_SAFEMODE_DEFAULT;
 import static datadog.trace.api.config.ProfilingConfig.PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_SCHEDULING_EVENT;
@@ -290,6 +294,30 @@ public static int getMemleakCapacity() {
     return getMemleakCapacity(ConfigProvider.getInstance());
   }
 
+  public static boolean isNativeMemoryProfilingEnabled(ConfigProvider configProvider) {
+    // nativemem never shipped under the legacy '.async.' naming, so it has no async-translated
+    // form to fall back to — call the provider directly instead of the ddprof->async helper.
+    return configProvider.getBoolean(
+        PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_NATIVEMEM_ENABLED,
+        PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_NATIVEMEM_ENABLED_DEFAULT);
+  }
+
+  public static boolean isNativeMemoryProfilingEnabled() {
+    return isNativeMemoryProfilingEnabled(ConfigProvider.getInstance());
+  }
+
+  public static int getNativeMemoryInterval(ConfigProvider configProvider) {
+    // nativemem never shipped under the legacy '.async.' naming, so it has no async-translated
+    // form to fall back to — call the provider directly instead of the ddprof->async helper.
+    return configProvider.getInteger(
+        PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_NATIVEMEM_INTERVAL,
+        PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_NATIVEMEM_INTERVAL_DEFAULT);
+  }
+
+  public static int getNativeMemoryInterval() {
+    return getNativeMemoryInterval(ConfigProvider.getInstance());
+  }
+
   public static int getStackDepth(ConfigProvider configProvider) {
     return getInteger(
         configProvider,
diff --git a/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-ddprof/src/test/java/com/datadog/profiling/ddprof/DatadogProfilerTest.java b/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-ddprof/src/test/java/com/datadog/profiling/ddprof/DatadogProfilerTest.java
index 0ef487f3630..008b70b1e66 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-ddprof/src/test/java/com/datadog/profiling/ddprof/DatadogProfilerTest.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-ddprof/src/test/java/com/datadog/profiling/ddprof/DatadogProfilerTest.java
@@ -118,11 +118,38 @@ void testStartCmdEnableJMethodIDOptim() throws Exception {
     DatadogProfiler profiler =
         DatadogProfiler.newInstance(ConfigProvider.withPropertiesOverride(props));
 
-    Path dir = Paths.get("/tmp");
-    Path targetFile = Files.createTempFile(dir, "target_", ".jfr");
-    String cmd = profiler.cmdStartProfiling(targetFile);
+    assertTrue(startCmd(profiler).contains(",fjmethodid=false"));
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  void testStartCmdNativeMemDisabledByDefault() throws Exception {
+    assertDoesNotThrow(
+        () -> DdprofLibraryLoader.jvmAccess().getReasonNotLoaded(), "Profiler not available");
+
+    DatadogProfiler profiler = DatadogProfiler.newInstance(ConfigProvider.getInstance());
+    assertFalse(profiler.enabledModes().contains(ProfilingMode.NATIVEMEM));
+
+    assertFalse(startCmd(profiler).contains(",nativemem="));
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  void testStartCmdNativeMemEnabled() throws Exception {
+    assertDoesNotThrow(
+        () -> DdprofLibraryLoader.jvmAccess().getReasonNotLoaded(), "Profiler not available");
+
+    Properties props = new Properties();
+    props.put(ProfilingConfig.PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_NATIVEMEM_ENABLED, "true");
+    props.put(ProfilingConfig.PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_NATIVEMEM_INTERVAL, "131072");
+    DatadogProfiler profiler =
+        DatadogProfiler.newInstance(ConfigProvider.withPropertiesOverride(props));
+    assertTrue(profiler.enabledModes().contains(ProfilingMode.NATIVEMEM));
+
+    assertTrue(startCmd(profiler).contains(",nativemem=131072"));
+  }
 
-    assertTrue(cmd.contains(",fjmethodid=false"), cmd);
+  private static String startCmd(DatadogProfiler profiler) throws Exception {
+    Path targetFile = Files.createTempFile(Paths.get("/tmp"), "target_", ".jfr");
+    return profiler.cmdStartProfiling(targetFile);
   }
 
   @ParameterizedTest
diff --git a/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-utils/src/main/java/com/datadog/profiling/utils/ProfilingMode.java b/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-utils/src/main/java/com/datadog/profiling/utils/ProfilingMode.java
index 9697edd74a1..e313c064445 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-utils/src/main/java/com/datadog/profiling/utils/ProfilingMode.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/agent-profiling/profiling-utils/src/main/java/com/datadog/profiling/utils/ProfilingMode.java
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ public enum ProfilingMode {
   CPU(1 << 0),
   WALL(1 << 1),
   ALLOCATION(1 << 2),
-  MEMLEAK(1 << 3);
+  MEMLEAK(1 << 3),
+  NATIVEMEM(1 << 4);
 
   public final int bitmask;
 
diff --git a/dd-trace-api/src/main/java/datadog/trace/api/config/ProfilingConfig.java b/dd-trace-api/src/main/java/datadog/trace/api/config/ProfilingConfig.java
index 6d60ab686a7..bf5f7a552e9 100644
--- a/dd-trace-api/src/main/java/datadog/trace/api/config/ProfilingConfig.java
+++ b/dd-trace-api/src/main/java/datadog/trace/api/config/ProfilingConfig.java
@@ -180,6 +180,13 @@ public final class ProfilingConfig {
   public static final int PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_LIVEHEAP_SAMPLE_PERCENT_DEFAULT =
       50; // default to 10% of allocation samples
 
+  public static final String PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_NATIVEMEM_ENABLED =
+      "profiling.experimental.ddprof.nativemem.enabled";
+  public static final boolean PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_NATIVEMEM_ENABLED_DEFAULT = false;
+  public static final String PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_NATIVEMEM_INTERVAL =
+      "profiling.experimental.ddprof.nativemem.interval";
+  public static final int PROFILING_DATADOG_PROFILER_NATIVEMEM_INTERVAL_DEFAULT = 512 * 1024;
+
   public static final String PROFILING_ENDPOINT_COLLECTION_ENABLED =
       "profiling.endpoint.collection.enabled";
   public static final boolean PROFILING_ENDPOINT_COLLECTION_ENABLED_DEFAULT = true;
diff --git a/metadata/supported-configurations.json b/metadata/supported-configurations.json
index af0caea701f..aaad660aae9 100644
--- a/metadata/supported-configurations.json
+++ b/metadata/supported-configurations.json
@@ -3233,6 +3233,22 @@
         "aliases": []
       }
     ],
+    "DD_PROFILING_EXPERIMENTAL_DDPROF_NATIVEMEM_ENABLED": [
+      {
+        "version": "A",
+        "type": "boolean",
+        "default": "false",
+        "aliases": []
+      }
+    ],
+    "DD_PROFILING_EXPERIMENTAL_DDPROF_NATIVEMEM_INTERVAL": [
+      {
+        "version": "A",
+        "type": "int",
+        "default": "524288",
+        "aliases": []
+      }
+    ],
     "DD_PROFILING_EXPERIMENTAL_DDPROF_SCHEDULING_EVENT": [
       {
         "version": "A",