diff --git a/packages/nextjs/src/performance/client.ts b/packages/nextjs/src/performance/client.ts
index e33e3243db47..b326781ba5fd 100644
--- a/packages/nextjs/src/performance/client.ts
+++ b/packages/nextjs/src/performance/client.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { Primitive, Transaction, TransactionContext } from '@sentry/types';
-import { fill, getGlobalObject } from '@sentry/utils';
+import { fill, getGlobalObject, stripUrlQueryAndFragment } from '@sentry/utils';
 import { default as Router } from 'next/router';
 
 const global = getGlobalObject<Window>();
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ const DEFAULT_TAGS = Object.freeze({
   'routing.instrumentation': 'next-router',
 });
 
-const QUERY_PARAM_REGEX = /\?(.*)/;
-
 let activeTransaction: Transaction | undefined = undefined;
 let prevTransactionName: string | undefined = undefined;
 let startTransaction: StartTransactionCb | undefined = undefined;
@@ -35,7 +33,7 @@ export function nextRouterInstrumentation(
     // route name. Setting the transaction name after the transaction is started could lead
     // to possible race conditions with the router, so this approach was taken.
     if (startTransactionOnPageLoad) {
-      prevTransactionName = Router.route !== null ? removeQueryParams(Router.route) : global.location.pathname;
+      prevTransactionName = Router.route !== null ? stripUrlQueryAndFragment(Router.route) : global.location.pathname;
       activeTransaction = startTransactionCb({
         name: prevTransactionName,
         op: 'pageload',
@@ -98,7 +96,7 @@ function changeStateWrapper(originalChangeStateWrapper: RouterChangeState): Wrap
       if (prevTransactionName) {
         tags.from = prevTransactionName;
       }
-      prevTransactionName = removeQueryParams(url);
+      prevTransactionName = stripUrlQueryAndFragment(url);
       activeTransaction = startTransaction({
         name: prevTransactionName,
         op: 'navigation',
@@ -109,7 +107,3 @@ function changeStateWrapper(originalChangeStateWrapper: RouterChangeState): Wrap
   };
   return wrapper;
 }
-
-export function removeQueryParams(route: string): string {
-  return route.replace(QUERY_PARAM_REGEX, '');
-}
diff --git a/packages/nextjs/src/utils/instrumentServer.ts b/packages/nextjs/src/utils/instrumentServer.ts
index d1effd5003ee..3514f436a010 100644
--- a/packages/nextjs/src/utils/instrumentServer.ts
+++ b/packages/nextjs/src/utils/instrumentServer.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { deepReadDirSync } from '@sentry/node';
 import { extractTraceparentData, getActiveTransaction, hasTracingEnabled } from '@sentry/tracing';
 import { Event as SentryEvent } from '@sentry/types';
-import { fill, isString, logger } from '@sentry/utils';
+import { fill, isString, logger, stripUrlQueryAndFragment } from '@sentry/utils';
 import * as domain from 'domain';
 import * as http from 'http';
 import { default as createNextServer } from 'next';
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ function makeWrappedReqHandler(origReqHandler: ReqHandler): WrappedReqHandler {
           }
 
           // pull off query string, if any
-          const reqPath = req.url.split('?')[0];
+          const reqPath = stripUrlQueryAndFragment(req.url);
 
           // requests for pages will only ever be GET requests, so don't bother to include the method in the transaction
           // name; requests to API routes could be GET, POST, PUT, etc, so do include it there
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ function makeWrappedReqHandler(origReqHandler: ReqHandler): WrappedReqHandler {
             {
               name: `${namePrefix}${reqPath}`,
               op: 'http.server',
-              metadata: { requestPath: req.url.split('?')[0] },
+              metadata: { requestPath: reqPath },
               ...traceparentData,
             },
             // extra context passed to the `tracesSampler`
diff --git a/packages/nextjs/test/performance/client.test.ts b/packages/nextjs/test/performance/client.test.ts
index 46ec3e60f051..ac632349275c 100644
--- a/packages/nextjs/test/performance/client.test.ts
+++ b/packages/nextjs/test/performance/client.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { default as Router } from 'next/router';
 
-import { nextRouterInstrumentation, removeQueryParams } from '../../src/performance/client';
+import { nextRouterInstrumentation } from '../../src/performance/client';
 
 let readyCalled = false;
 jest.mock('next/router', () => {
@@ -100,18 +100,4 @@ describe('client', () => {
       });
     });
   });
-
-  describe('removeQueryParams()', () => {
-    it('removes query params from an url', () => {
-      const table: Table = [
-        { in: '/posts/[id]/[comment]?name=ferret&color=purple', out: '/posts/[id]/[comment]' },
-        { in: '/posts/[id]/[comment]?', out: '/posts/[id]/[comment]' },
-        { in: '/about?', out: '/about' },
-      ];
-
-      table.forEach(test => {
-        expect(removeQueryParams(test.in)).toEqual(test.out);
-      });
-    });
-  });
 });