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## Self-diagnostics

All OpenTelemetry libraries -- the API, SDK, exporters, instrumentation adapters, etc. -- are encouraged to expose self-troubleshooting metrics, spans, and other telemetry that can be easily enabled and filtered out by default.
All OpenTelemetry libraries -- the API, SDK, exporters, instrumentations, etc. -- are encouraged to expose self-troubleshooting metrics, spans, and other telemetry that can be easily enabled and filtered out by default.
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One good example of such telemetry is a `Span` exporter that indicates how much time exporters spend uploading telemetry.
Another example may be a metric exposed by a `SpanProcessor` that describes the current queue size of telemetry data to be uploaded.
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<a name="instrumenting_library"></a>

### Instrumenting Library
### Instrumentation Library

Denotes the library that provides the instrumentation for a given [Instrumented Library](#instrumented_library).
*Instrumented Library* and *Instrumenting Library* may be the same library
*Instrumented Library* and *Instrumentation Library* may be the same library
if it has built-in OpenTelemetry instrumentation.

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Example: `io.opentelemetry.contrib.mongodb`.

Synonyms: *Instrumentation Library*, *Integration*.
Synonyms: *Instrumentation Library*
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<a name="name"></a>

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Read more at OpenTelemetry Service [Long-term
Vision](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/master/docs/vision.md).

## Instrumentation adapters
## Instrumentation Libraries

See [Instrumentation Library](glossary.md#instrumentation_library)

The inspiration of the project is to make every library and application
manageable out of the box by instrumenting it with OpenTelemetry. However on the
way to this goal there will be a need to enable instrumentation by plugging
instrumentation adapters into the library of choice. These adapters can be
wrapping library APIs, subscribing to the library-specific callbacks or
translating telemetry exposed in other formats into OpenTelemetry model.

Instrumentation adapters may be called different names. It is often referred as
plugin, collector or auto-collector, telemetry module, bridge, etc. It is always
recommended to follow the library and language standards. For instance, if
instrumentation adapter is implemented as "log appender" - it will probably be
called an `appender`, not an instrumentation adapter. However if there is no
established name - the recommendation is to call packages "Instrumentation
Adapter" or simply "Adapter".
observable out of the box by having them call OpenTelemetry API directly. However,
many libraries will not have such integration, and as such there is a need for
a separate library which would inject such calls, using mechanisms such as
wrapping interfaces, subscribing to library-specific callbacks, or translating
existing telemetry into the OpenTelemetry model.

A library that enables OpenTelemetry observability for another library is called
an [Instrumentation Library](glossary.md#instrumentation_library).

An instrumentation library should be named to follow any naming conventions of
the instrumented library (e.g. 'middleware' for a web framework).

If there is no established name, the recommendation is to prefix packages
with "opentelemetry-instrumentation", followed by the instrumented library
name itself. Examples include:

* opentelemetry-instrumentation-flask (Python)
* @opentelemetry/instrumentation-grpc (Javascript)

## Code injecting adapters

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different settings (e.g. `SpanProcessor`s) to each of those instances and -
in further consequence - to the `Tracer` instances created by them.

- `name` (required): This name must identify the instrumentation library (also
referred to as integration, e.g. `io.opentelemetry.contrib.mongodb`) and *not*
- `name` (required): This name must identify the instrumentation library (e.g. `io.opentelemetry.contrib.mongodb`) and *not*
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the instrumented library.
In case an invalid name (null or empty string) is specified, a working
default Tracer implementation as a fallback is returned rather than returning
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