diff --git a/MIGRATION_GUIDE.md b/MIGRATION_GUIDE.md
index 7936fa52bf..9a24e8d11d 100644
--- a/MIGRATION_GUIDE.md
+++ b/MIGRATION_GUIDE.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ Looking to upgrade from Sentry SDK 1.x to 2.x? Here's a comprehensive list of wh
 - Removed support for Celery 3.\*.
 - Removed support for Django 1.8, 1.9, 1.10.
 - Removed support for Flask 0.\*.
+- Removed `last_event_id()` top level API. The last event Id is still returned by `capture_event()`, `capture_exception()` and `capture_message()` but the top level api `sentry_sdk.last_event_id()` has been removed. 
 - `sentry_sdk._functools` was removed.
 - A number of compatibility utilities were removed from `sentry_sdk._compat`: the constants `PY2` and `PY33`; the functions `datetime_utcnow`, `utc_from_timestamp`, `implements_str`, `contextmanager`; and the aliases `text_type`, `string_types`, `number_types`, `int_types`, `iteritems`, `binary_sequence_types`.
 - The deprecated `with_locals` configuration option was removed. Use `include_local_variables` instead. See https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/python/configuration/options/#include-local-variables.
diff --git a/sentry_sdk/hub.py b/sentry_sdk/hub.py
index b9e38f3d09..0853d3161a 100644
--- a/sentry_sdk/hub.py
+++ b/sentry_sdk/hub.py
@@ -285,11 +285,14 @@ def scope(self):
     def last_event_id(self):
         # type: () -> Optional[str]
         """
-        .. deprecated:: 2.0.0
-            This function is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
-
         Returns the last event ID.
+
+        .. deprecated:: 1.40.5
+            This function is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. The functions `capture_event`, `capture_message`, and `capture_exception` return the event ID directly.
         """
+        logger.warning(
+            "Deprecated: last_event_id is deprecated. This will be removed in the future. The functions `capture_event`, `capture_message`, and `capture_exception` return the event ID directly."
+        )
         return self._last_event_id
 
     def bind_client(