diff --git a/eland/__init__.py b/eland/__init__.py
index f1a2b30..71e227b 100644
--- a/eland/__init__.py
+++ b/eland/__init__.py
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
 #  specific language governing permissions and limitations
 #  under the License.
 
+import warnings
+
 from ._version import (  # noqa: F401
     __author__,
     __author_email__,
@@ -25,13 +27,16 @@ from ._version import (  # noqa: F401
     __url__,
     __version__,
 )
-from .common import SortOrder
+from .common import ElandDeprecationWarning, SortOrder
 from .dataframe import DataFrame
 from .etl import csv_to_eland, eland_to_pandas, pandas_to_eland
 from .index import Index
 from .ndframe import NDFrame
 from .series import Series
 
+# Display Eland deprecation warnings by default
+warnings.simplefilter("default", category=ElandDeprecationWarning)
+
 __all__ = [
     "DataFrame",
     "Series",
diff --git a/eland/common.py b/eland/common.py
index 219ec8b..667313c 100644
--- a/eland/common.py
+++ b/eland/common.py
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ PANDAS_VERSION: Tuple[int, ...] = tuple(
 _ELAND_MAJOR_VERSION = int(_eland_version.split(".")[0])
 
 
+class ElandDeprecationWarning(DeprecationWarning):
+    """Warning for deprecation functionality in Eland"""
+
+
 with warnings.catch_warnings():
     warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
     EMPTY_SERIES_DTYPE = pd.Series().dtype
diff --git a/eland/ml/exporters/es_gb_models.py b/eland/ml/exporters/es_gb_models.py
index 5802b05..4f1e197 100644
--- a/eland/ml/exporters/es_gb_models.py
+++ b/eland/ml/exporters/es_gb_models.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #  specific language governing permissions and limitations
 #  under the License.
 
+import warnings
 from abc import ABC
 from typing import Any, List, Literal, Mapping, Optional, Set, Tuple, Union
 
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ from sklearn.ensemble._gb_losses import (
 from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifier, DecisionTreeRegressor
 from sklearn.utils.validation import check_array
 
-from eland.common import ensure_es_client
+from eland.common import ElandDeprecationWarning, ensure_es_client
 from eland.ml.common import TYPE_CLASSIFICATION, TYPE_REGRESSION
 
 from ._sklearn_deserializers import Tree
@@ -62,6 +63,10 @@ class ESGradientBoostingModel(ABC):
         model_id : str
             The unique identifier of the trained inference model in Elasticsearch.
 
+        Deprecation Warning:
+        ------
+        Exporting data frame analytics models as ESGradientBoostingModel subclasses is deprecated and will be removed in version 9.0.0.
+
         Raises
         ------
         RuntimeError
@@ -70,6 +75,11 @@ class ESGradientBoostingModel(ABC):
             The model is expected to be trained in Elastic Stack. Models initially imported
             from xgboost, lgbm, or sklearn are not supported.
         """
+        warnings.warn(
+            "Exporting data frame analytics models as ESGradientBoostingModel subclasses is deprecated and will be removed in version 9.0.0.",
+            ElandDeprecationWarning,
+            stacklevel=2,
+        )
         self.es_client: Elasticsearch = ensure_es_client(es_client)
         self.model_id = model_id