diff --git a/currencies.json b/currencies.json
index c20c8b8c88..ccdcd6864a 100644
--- a/currencies.json
+++ b/currencies.json
@@ -764,7 +764,7 @@
     "isBeta": false,
     "ignoreUpdates": false,
     "note": "",
-    "deprecated": false,
+    "deprecated": true,
     "core": false
   },
   {
diff --git a/packages/core/src/tracing/instrumentation/messaging/rdkafka.js b/packages/core/src/tracing/instrumentation/messaging/rdkafka.js
index 88bcd4e1ad..0f47454b5e 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/tracing/instrumentation/messaging/rdkafka.js
+++ b/packages/core/src/tracing/instrumentation/messaging/rdkafka.js
@@ -12,8 +12,12 @@ const constants = require('../../constants');
 const cls = require('../../cls');
 const shimmer = require('../../shimmer');
 const { getFunctionArguments } = require('../../../util/function_arguments');
-let traceCorrelationEnabled = constants.kafkaTraceCorrelationDefault;
+let logger;
+logger = require('../../../logger').getLogger('tracing/rdkafka', newLogger => {
+  logger = newLogger;
+});
 
+let traceCorrelationEnabled = constants.kafkaTraceCorrelationDefault;
 let isActive = false;
 
 exports.init = function init(config) {
@@ -21,6 +25,7 @@ exports.init = function init(config) {
   hook.onFileLoad(/\/node-rdkafka\/lib\/kafka-consumer-stream\.js/, instrumentConsumerAsStream);
   hook.onModuleLoad('node-rdkafka', instrumentConsumer);
 
+  hook.onModuleLoad('kafka-avro', logDeprecationKafkaAvroMessage);
   traceCorrelationEnabled = config.tracing.kafka.traceCorrelation;
 };
 
@@ -359,3 +364,10 @@ function findInstanaHeaderValues(instanaHeadersAsObject) {
 
   return { level, traceId, longTraceId, parentSpanId };
 }
+
+function logDeprecationKafkaAvroMessage() {
+  logger.warn(
+    // eslint-disable-next-line max-len
+    '[Deprecation Warning] The support for kafka-avro library is deprecated and might be removed in the next major release. See https://github.com/waldophotos/kafka-avro/issues/120'
+  );
+}