diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index fe57197..835f0b2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### Fixed
+- PHP warning, when accessing OPcache status with `opcache.restrict_api`
+
 ## 3.3.6 - 2022-02-08
 
 ### Changed
diff --git a/src/Record/Collector/Core_Load_Collector.php b/src/Record/Collector/Core_Load_Collector.php
index 2750387..24937d2 100644
--- a/src/Record/Collector/Core_Load_Collector.php
+++ b/src/Record/Collector/Core_Load_Collector.php
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ class Core_Load_Collector implements Record_Collector_Interface {
 
 		$php = 'PHP Load – ' . PHP_VERSION;
 
-		if ( function_exists( 'opcache_get_status' ) ) {
+		if ( $this->opcache_api_available() ) {
 			$zend_status = opcache_get_status();
 			$php         .= empty( $zend_status['opcache_enabled'] ) ? '' : ' – OPcache';
 		}
@@ -52,4 +52,22 @@ class Core_Load_Collector implements Record_Collector_Interface {
 			new Record( $load, $timestart, $this->timeload - $timestart, '', 'core' ),
 		];
 	}
+
+	private function opcache_api_available(): bool {
+		if ( ! function_exists( 'opcache_get_status' ) ) {
+			return false;
+		}
+
+		$restrict_api = ini_get( 'opcache.restrict_api' );
+
+		if ( ! $restrict_api ) {
+			return true;
+		}
+
+		/**
+		 * The paths aren't normalized, because it is unclear if they are in PHP itself
+		 * and this should rather be false negative to prevent warning emitted.
+		*/
+		return 0 === stripos( __FILE__, $restrict_api );
+	}
 }