diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 710947c18..369d7d7c6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 - `opentelemetry-resource-detector-azure` Added 10s timeout to VM Resource Detector
   ([#2119](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/2119))
+- `opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka` Add support for higher versions until 2.3.0 of confluent_kafka
+  ([#2132](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/2132))
 - `opentelemetry-resource-detector-azure` Changed timeout to 4 seconds due to [timeout bug](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/issues/3644)
   ([#2136](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/2136))
 
diff --git a/docs-requirements.txt b/docs-requirements.txt
index 965ea850c..b3f299886 100644
--- a/docs-requirements.txt
+++ b/docs-requirements.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ botocore~=1.0
 boto3~=1.0
 cassandra-driver~=3.25
 celery>=4.0
-confluent-kafka>= 1.8.2,<= 2.2.0
+confluent-kafka>= 1.8.2,<= 2.3.0
 elasticsearch>=2.0,<9.0
 flask~=2.0
 falcon~=2.0
diff --git a/instrumentation/README.md b/instrumentation/README.md
index b3abf387b..2d77e806c 100644
--- a/instrumentation/README.md
+++ b/instrumentation/README.md
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 | [opentelemetry-instrumentation-botocore](./opentelemetry-instrumentation-botocore) | botocore ~= 1.0 | No
 | [opentelemetry-instrumentation-cassandra](./opentelemetry-instrumentation-cassandra) | cassandra-driver ~= 3.25,scylla-driver ~= 3.25 | No
 | [opentelemetry-instrumentation-celery](./opentelemetry-instrumentation-celery) | celery >= 4.0, < 6.0 | No
-| [opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka](./opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka) | confluent-kafka >= 1.8.2, <= 2.2.0 | No
+| [opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka](./opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka) | confluent-kafka >= 1.8.2, <= 2.3.0 | No
 | [opentelemetry-instrumentation-dbapi](./opentelemetry-instrumentation-dbapi) | dbapi | No
 | [opentelemetry-instrumentation-django](./opentelemetry-instrumentation-django) | django >= 1.10 | Yes
 | [opentelemetry-instrumentation-elasticsearch](./opentelemetry-instrumentation-elasticsearch) | elasticsearch >= 2.0 | No
diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka/pyproject.toml b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka/pyproject.toml
index 2ef1fd6b4..69a334b2a 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka/pyproject.toml
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka/pyproject.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 instruments = [
-  "confluent-kafka >= 1.8.2, <= 2.2.0",
+  "confluent-kafka >= 1.8.2, <= 2.3.0",
 ]
 test = [
   "opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka[instruments]",
diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/confluent_kafka/package.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/confluent_kafka/package.py
index 21d37ebfa..bbc900c1d 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/confluent_kafka/package.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/confluent_kafka/package.py
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 
-_instruments = ("confluent-kafka >= 1.8.2, <= 2.2.0",)
+_instruments = ("confluent-kafka >= 1.8.2, <= 2.3.0",)
diff --git a/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/bootstrap_gen.py b/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/bootstrap_gen.py
index 59c9c5e4d..bf94b44d2 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/bootstrap_gen.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/bootstrap_gen.py
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ libraries = [
         "instrumentation": "opentelemetry-instrumentation-celery==0.44b0.dev",
     },
     {
-        "library": "confluent-kafka >= 1.8.2, <= 2.2.0",
+        "library": "confluent-kafka >= 1.8.2, <= 2.3.0",
         "instrumentation": "opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka==0.44b0.dev",
     },
     {