diff --git a/components/context/src/main/java/datadog/context/ContextScope.java b/components/context/src/main/java/datadog/context/ContextScope.java
index 7788a077615..d21d32a5146 100644
--- a/components/context/src/main/java/datadog/context/ContextScope.java
+++ b/components/context/src/main/java/datadog/context/ContextScope.java
@@ -8,4 +8,19 @@ public interface ContextScope extends AutoCloseable {
   /** Detaches the context from the execution unit. */
   @Override
   void close();
+
+  /**
+   * Closes the given scope, tolerating a {@code null} scope.
+   *
+   * <p>Useful in advice that attaches a scope on enter and closes it on exit: if the enter advice
+   * throws before assigning the scope, the exit advice would otherwise NPE on a null scope, masking
+   * the original failure.
+   *
+   * @param scope the scope to close; can be {@code null}.
+   */
+  static void close(ContextScope scope) {
+    if (scope != null) {
+      scope.close();
+    }
+  }
 }
diff --git a/components/context/src/test/java/datadog/context/ContextScopeTest.java b/components/context/src/test/java/datadog/context/ContextScopeTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..00299a57b23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/context/src/test/java/datadog/context/ContextScopeTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+package datadog.context;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertDoesNotThrow;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+class ContextScopeTest {
+
+  private static final class RecordingScope implements ContextScope {
+    private boolean closed;
+
+    @Override
+    public Context context() {
+      return null;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void close() {
+      closed = true;
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  void staticCloseToleratesNullScope() {
+    assertDoesNotThrow(() -> ContextScope.close(null));
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  void staticCloseClosesNonNullScope() {
+    RecordingScope scope = new RecordingScope();
+    ContextScope.close(scope);
+    assertTrue(scope.closed);
+  }
+}