diff --git a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-3.8/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/kafka_clients38/KafkaConsumerInfoInstrumentation.java b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-3.8/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/kafka_clients38/KafkaConsumerInfoInstrumentation.java
index 2df7a897765..334aa6c9aac 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-3.8/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/kafka_clients38/KafkaConsumerInfoInstrumentation.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-3.8/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/kafka_clients38/KafkaConsumerInfoInstrumentation.java
@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@ public String[] helperClassNames() {
     return new String[] {
       packageName + ".KafkaDecorator",
       packageName + ".KafkaConsumerInfo",
-      packageName + ".KafkaConsumerInstrumentationHelper",
       "datadog.trace.instrumentation.kafka_common.ClusterIdHolder",
     };
   }
diff --git a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-3.8/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/kafka_clients38/LegacyKafkaConsumerInfoInstrumentation.java b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-3.8/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/kafka_clients38/LegacyKafkaConsumerInfoInstrumentation.java
index 39ff5fafb6c..4b415b0bc97 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-3.8/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/kafka_clients38/LegacyKafkaConsumerInfoInstrumentation.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-3.8/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/kafka_clients38/LegacyKafkaConsumerInfoInstrumentation.java
@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@ public String[] helperClassNames() {
     return new String[] {
       packageName + ".KafkaDecorator",
       packageName + ".KafkaConsumerInfo",
-      packageName + ".KafkaConsumerInstrumentationHelper",
       "datadog.trace.instrumentation.kafka_common.ClusterIdHolder",
     };
   }