diff --git a/driver-core/src/test/functional/com/mongodb/ClusterFixture.java b/driver-core/src/test/functional/com/mongodb/ClusterFixture.java
index d3518436dd..56290bcd7c 100644
--- a/driver-core/src/test/functional/com/mongodb/ClusterFixture.java
+++ b/driver-core/src/test/functional/com/mongodb/ClusterFixture.java
@@ -610,6 +610,10 @@ public static BsonDocument getServerParameters() {
         return serverParameters;
     }
 
+    public static boolean isUnixSocket() {
+        return getConnectionString().getConnectionString().contains(".sock");
+    }
+
     public static boolean isDiscoverableReplicaSet() {
         return clusterIsType(REPLICA_SET) && getClusterConnectionMode() == MULTIPLE;
     }
diff --git a/driver-sync/src/test/functional/com/mongodb/client/unified/UnifiedTestModifications.java b/driver-sync/src/test/functional/com/mongodb/client/unified/UnifiedTestModifications.java
index 217dcc80b8..75370aa73c 100644
--- a/driver-sync/src/test/functional/com/mongodb/client/unified/UnifiedTestModifications.java
+++ b/driver-sync/src/test/functional/com/mongodb/client/unified/UnifiedTestModifications.java
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 package com.mongodb.client.unified;
 
+import com.mongodb.ClusterFixture;
 import org.opentest4j.AssertionFailedError;
 
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -26,6 +27,8 @@
 
 import static com.mongodb.ClusterFixture.isDiscoverableReplicaSet;
 import static com.mongodb.ClusterFixture.isSharded;
+import static com.mongodb.ClusterFixture.isStandalone;
+import static com.mongodb.ClusterFixture.isUnixSocket;
 import static com.mongodb.ClusterFixture.serverVersionLessThan;
 import static com.mongodb.assertions.Assertions.assertNotNull;
 import static com.mongodb.assertions.Assertions.assertTrue;
@@ -190,6 +193,10 @@ public static void applyCustomizations(final TestDef def) {
                 .file("open-telemetry/tests", "operation find without db.query.text")
                 .file("open-telemetry/tests", "operation find_retries");
 
+        def.skipAccordingToSpec("Micrometer tests expect the network transport to be tcp")
+                .when(ClusterFixture::isUnixSocket)
+                .directory("open-telemetry/tests");
+
         // TODO-JAVA-5712
 
         // collection-management