diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 993d02a397..35c3cd7448 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
   - To enable the auto configuration of it, please set `-Dotel.java.global-autoconfigure.enabled=true` on the `java` command, when starting your application.
   - You may also want to set `OTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER=none;OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER=none;OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER=none` env vars to not have the log flooded with error messages regarding OpenTelemetry features we don't use.
 
+### Fixes
+- Replace deprecated `SimpleInstrumentation` with `SimplePerformantInstrumentation` for graphql 22 ([#3974](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/3974))
+
 ## 8.0.0-rc.2
 
 ### Fixes
diff --git a/sentry-graphql-22/api/sentry-graphql-22.api b/sentry-graphql-22/api/sentry-graphql-22.api
index b456fd98bf..2bee0cf765 100644
--- a/sentry-graphql-22/api/sentry-graphql-22.api
+++ b/sentry-graphql-22/api/sentry-graphql-22.api
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ public final class io/sentry/graphql22/BuildConfig {
 	public static final field VERSION_NAME Ljava/lang/String;
 }
 
-public final class io/sentry/graphql22/SentryInstrumentation : graphql/execution/instrumentation/SimpleInstrumentation {
+public final class io/sentry/graphql22/SentryInstrumentation : graphql/execution/instrumentation/SimplePerformantInstrumentation {
 	public static final field SENTRY_EXCEPTIONS_CONTEXT_KEY Ljava/lang/String;
 	public static final field SENTRY_SCOPES_CONTEXT_KEY Ljava/lang/String;
 	public fun <init> (Lio/sentry/graphql/SentryGraphqlInstrumentation$BeforeSpanCallback;Lio/sentry/graphql/SentrySubscriptionHandler;Lio/sentry/graphql/ExceptionReporter;Ljava/util/List;)V
diff --git a/sentry-graphql-22/src/main/java/io/sentry/graphql22/SentryInstrumentation.java b/sentry-graphql-22/src/main/java/io/sentry/graphql22/SentryInstrumentation.java
index 47881ceac8..a62eeade70 100644
--- a/sentry-graphql-22/src/main/java/io/sentry/graphql22/SentryInstrumentation.java
+++ b/sentry-graphql-22/src/main/java/io/sentry/graphql22/SentryInstrumentation.java
@@ -19,9 +19,8 @@
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.TestOnly;
 
-@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
 public final class SentryInstrumentation
-    extends graphql.execution.instrumentation.SimpleInstrumentation {
+    extends graphql.execution.instrumentation.SimplePerformantInstrumentation {
 
   /**
    * @deprecated please use {@link SentryGraphqlInstrumentation#SENTRY_SCOPES_CONTEXT_KEY}
@@ -144,7 +143,7 @@ public SentryInstrumentation(
   }
 
   @Override
-  @SuppressWarnings({"FutureReturnValueIgnored", "deprecation"})
+  @SuppressWarnings({"FutureReturnValueIgnored"})
   public @NotNull DataFetcher<?> instrumentDataFetcher(
       final @NotNull DataFetcher<?> dataFetcher,
       final @NotNull InstrumentationFieldFetchParameters parameters,