diff --git a/metrics-core/src/main/java/com/codahale/metrics/ExponentiallyDecayingReservoir.java b/metrics-core/src/main/java/com/codahale/metrics/ExponentiallyDecayingReservoir.java
index 7ff16ded5c..c8c6b0f317 100644
--- a/metrics-core/src/main/java/com/codahale/metrics/ExponentiallyDecayingReservoir.java
+++ b/metrics-core/src/main/java/com/codahale/metrics/ExponentiallyDecayingReservoir.java
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ public void update(long value, long timestamp) {
         try {
             final double itemWeight = weight(timestamp - startTime);
             final WeightedSample sample = new WeightedSample(value, itemWeight);
-            final double priority = itemWeight / ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextDouble();
+            final double priority = itemWeight / ThreadLocalRandomProxy.current().nextDouble();
             
             final long newCount = count.incrementAndGet();
             if (newCount <= size) {
diff --git a/metrics-core/src/main/java/com/codahale/metrics/ThreadLocalRandomProxy.java b/metrics-core/src/main/java/com/codahale/metrics/ThreadLocalRandomProxy.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..54deaee50a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/metrics-core/src/main/java/com/codahale/metrics/ThreadLocalRandomProxy.java
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package com.codahale.metrics;
+
+import java.util.Random;
+
+/**
+ * Proxy for creating thread local {@link Random} instances depending on the runtime.
+ * By default it tries to use the JDK's implementation and fallbacks to the internal
+ * one if the JDK doesn't provide any.
+ */
+class ThreadLocalRandomProxy {
+
+    /**
+     * To avoid NoClassDefFoundError during loading {@link ThreadLocalRandomProxy}
+     */
+    private static class JdkDelegate {
+
+        private static Random current() {
+            return java.util.concurrent.ThreadLocalRandom.current();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static final boolean IS_JDK_THREAD_LOCAL_AVAILABLE = isIsJdkThreadLocalAvailable();
+
+    private static boolean isIsJdkThreadLocalAvailable() {
+        try {
+            JdkDelegate.current();
+            return true;
+        } catch (NoClassDefFoundError e) {
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static Random current() {
+        return IS_JDK_THREAD_LOCAL_AVAILABLE ? JdkDelegate.current() : ThreadLocalRandom.current();
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/metrics-core/src/main/java/com/codahale/metrics/UniformReservoir.java b/metrics-core/src/main/java/com/codahale/metrics/UniformReservoir.java
index d9812531d8..5e816b42e9 100644
--- a/metrics-core/src/main/java/com/codahale/metrics/UniformReservoir.java
+++ b/metrics-core/src/main/java/com/codahale/metrics/UniformReservoir.java
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ public void update(long value) {
     private static long nextLong(long n) {
         long bits, val;
         do {
-            bits = ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextLong() & (~(1L << BITS_PER_LONG));
+            bits = ThreadLocalRandomProxy.current().nextLong() & (~(1L << BITS_PER_LONG));
             val = bits % n;
         } while (bits - val + (n - 1) < 0L);
         return val;