diff --git a/dd-java-agent/agent-tooling/src/main/java/datadog/trace/agent/tooling/servicediscovery/MemFDUnixWriter.java b/dd-java-agent/agent-tooling/src/main/java/datadog/trace/agent/tooling/servicediscovery/MemFDUnixWriter.java
index 480c8fbd79c..6a080aafd35 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/agent-tooling/src/main/java/datadog/trace/agent/tooling/servicediscovery/MemFDUnixWriter.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/agent-tooling/src/main/java/datadog/trace/agent/tooling/servicediscovery/MemFDUnixWriter.java
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 package datadog.trace.agent.tooling.servicediscovery;
 
+import static datadog.trace.api.telemetry.LogCollector.SEND_TELEMETRY;
+
 import com.sun.jna.Library;
 import com.sun.jna.Memory;
 import com.sun.jna.Native;
 import com.sun.jna.NativeLong;
 import com.sun.jna.Pointer;
+import datadog.environment.OperatingSystem;
 import datadog.trace.core.servicediscovery.ForeignMemoryWriter;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
@@ -13,7 +16,7 @@ public class MemFDUnixWriter implements ForeignMemoryWriter {
   private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MemFDUnixWriter.class);
 
   private interface LibC extends Library {
-    int memfd_create(String name, int flags);
+    int syscall(int number, Object... args);
 
     NativeLong write(int fd, Pointer buf, NativeLong count);
 
@@ -36,7 +39,13 @@ private interface LibC extends Library {
   public void write(String fileName, byte[] payload) {
     final LibC libc = Native.load("c", LibC.class);
 
-    int memFd = libc.memfd_create(fileName, MFD_CLOEXEC | MFD_ALLOW_SEALING);
+    OperatingSystem.Architecture arch = OperatingSystem.architecture();
+    int memfdSyscall = getMemfdSyscall(arch);
+    if (memfdSyscall <= 0) {
+      log.debug(SEND_TELEMETRY, "service discovery not supported for arch={}", arch);
+      return;
+    }
+    int memFd = libc.syscall(memfdSyscall, fileName, MFD_CLOEXEC | MFD_ALLOW_SEALING);
     if (memFd < 0) {
       log.warn("{} memfd create failed, errno={}", fileName, Native.getLastError());
       return;
@@ -60,4 +69,23 @@ public void write(String fileName, byte[] payload) {
     }
     // memfd is not closed to keep it readable for the lifetime of the process.
   }
+
+  private static int getMemfdSyscall(OperatingSystem.Architecture arch) {
+    switch (arch) {
+      case X64:
+        // https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v6.17/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl#L331
+        return 319;
+      case X86:
+        // https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v6.17/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl#L371
+        return 356;
+      case ARM64:
+        // https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v6.17/scripts/syscall.tbl#L329
+        return 279;
+      case ARM:
+        // https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v6.17/arch/arm64/tools/syscall_32.tbl#L400
+        return 385;
+      default:
+        return -1;
+    }
+  }
 }