diff --git a/examples/basic-tracer-node/index.js b/examples/basic-tracer-node/index.js
index c43657e96e..839f8a2744 100644
--- a/examples/basic-tracer-node/index.js
+++ b/examples/basic-tracer-node/index.js
@@ -1,14 +1,19 @@
 'use strict';
 
 const opentelemetry = require('@opentelemetry/api');
+const { Resource } = require('@opentelemetry/resources');
+const { ResourceAttributes } = require('@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions');
 const { BasicTracerProvider, ConsoleSpanExporter, SimpleSpanProcessor } = require('@opentelemetry/tracing');
 const { JaegerExporter } = require('@opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger');
 
-const provider = new BasicTracerProvider();
+const provider = new BasicTracerProvider({
+  resource: new Resource({
+    [ResourceAttributes.SERVICE_NAME]: 'basic-service',
+  }),
+});
 
 // Configure span processor to send spans to the exporter
 const exporter = new JaegerExporter({
-  serviceName: 'basic-service',
   endpoint: 'http://localhost:14268/api/traces',
 });
 provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));
diff --git a/examples/collector-exporter-node/metrics.js b/examples/collector-exporter-node/metrics.js
index 36182a54ce..bcd5b886c2 100644
--- a/examples/collector-exporter-node/metrics.js
+++ b/examples/collector-exporter-node/metrics.js
@@ -5,18 +5,22 @@ const { CollectorMetricExporter } = require('@opentelemetry/exporter-collector')
 // const { CollectorMetricExporter } = require('@opentelemetry/exporter-collector-grpc');
 // const { CollectorMetricExporter } = require('@opentelemetry/exporter-collector-proto');
 const { MeterProvider } = require('@opentelemetry/metrics');
+const { Resource } = require('@opentelemetry/resources');
+const { ResourceAttributes } = require('@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions');
 
 // Optional and only needed to see the internal diagnostic logging (during development)
 diag.setLogger(new DiagConsoleLogger(), DiagLogLevel.DEBUG);
 
 const metricExporter = new CollectorMetricExporter({
-  serviceName: 'basic-metric-service',
   // url: 'http://localhost:55681/v1/metrics',
 });
 
 const meter = new MeterProvider({
   exporter: metricExporter,
   interval: 1000,
+  resource: new Resource({
+    [ResourceAttributes.SERVICE_NAME]: 'basic-metric-service',
+  }),
 }).getMeter('example-exporter-collector');
 
 const requestCounter = meter.createCounter('requests', {
diff --git a/examples/collector-exporter-node/tracing.js b/examples/collector-exporter-node/tracing.js
index 5f0bd39e17..03b968407e 100644
--- a/examples/collector-exporter-node/tracing.js
+++ b/examples/collector-exporter-node/tracing.js
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 const opentelemetry = require('@opentelemetry/api');
 const { BasicTracerProvider, ConsoleSpanExporter, SimpleSpanProcessor } = require('@opentelemetry/tracing');
 const { CollectorTraceExporter } = require('@opentelemetry/exporter-collector');
+const { Resource } = require('@opentelemetry/resources');
+const { ResourceAttributes } = require('@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions');
 // const { CollectorTraceExporter } = require('@opentelemetry/exporter-collector-grpc');
 // const { CollectorTraceExporter } = require('@opentelemetry/exporter-collector-proto');
 
@@ -12,13 +14,16 @@ const { CollectorTraceExporter } = require('@opentelemetry/exporter-collector');
 // );
 
 const exporter = new CollectorTraceExporter({
-  serviceName: 'basic-service',
   // headers: {
   //   foo: 'bar'
   // },
 });
 
-const provider = new BasicTracerProvider();
+const provider = new BasicTracerProvider({
+  resource: new Resource({
+    [ResourceAttributes.SERVICE_NAME]: 'basic-service',
+  }),
+});
 provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));
 provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ConsoleSpanExporter()));
 provider.register();
diff --git a/examples/grpc-js/tracer.js b/examples/grpc-js/tracer.js
index 7710dff1d8..b42f510973 100644
--- a/examples/grpc-js/tracer.js
+++ b/examples/grpc-js/tracer.js
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 const opentelemetry = require('@opentelemetry/api');
 const { registerInstrumentations } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation');
 const { NodeTracerProvider } = require('@opentelemetry/node');
+const { Resource } = require('@opentelemetry/resources');
+const { ResourceAttributes } = require('@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions');
 const { SimpleSpanProcessor } = require('@opentelemetry/tracing');
 const { JaegerExporter } = require('@opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger');
 const { ZipkinExporter } = require('@opentelemetry/exporter-zipkin');
@@ -11,17 +13,17 @@ const { GrpcInstrumentation } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-grpc');
 const EXPORTER = process.env.EXPORTER || '';
 
 module.exports = (serviceName) => {
-  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
+  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
+    resource: new Resource({
+      [ResourceAttributes.SERVICE_NAME]: serviceName,
+    }),
+  });
 
   let exporter;
   if (EXPORTER.toLowerCase().startsWith('z')) {
-    exporter = new ZipkinExporter({
-      serviceName,
-    });
+    exporter = new ZipkinExporter();
   } else {
-    exporter = new JaegerExporter({
-      serviceName,
-    });
+    exporter = new JaegerExporter();
   }
 
   provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));
diff --git a/examples/grpc/tracer.js b/examples/grpc/tracer.js
index 5c108de48d..e2cbf08e4a 100644
--- a/examples/grpc/tracer.js
+++ b/examples/grpc/tracer.js
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 const opentelemetry = require('@opentelemetry/api');
 const { registerInstrumentations } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation');
 const { NodeTracerProvider } = require('@opentelemetry/node');
+const { Resource } = require('@opentelemetry/resources');
+const { ResourceAttributes } = require('@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions');
 const { SimpleSpanProcessor } = require('@opentelemetry/tracing');
 const { JaegerExporter } = require('@opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger');
 const { ZipkinExporter } = require('@opentelemetry/exporter-zipkin');
@@ -11,17 +13,17 @@ const { GrpcInstrumentation } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-grpc');
 const EXPORTER = process.env.EXPORTER || '';
 
 module.exports = (serviceName) => {
-  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
+  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
+    resource: new Resource({
+      [ResourceAttributes.SERVICE_NAME]: serviceName,
+    }),
+  });
 
   let exporter;
   if (EXPORTER.toLowerCase().startsWith('z')) {
-    exporter = new ZipkinExporter({
-      serviceName,
-    });
+    exporter = new ZipkinExporter();
   } else {
-    exporter = new JaegerExporter({
-      serviceName,
-    });
+    exporter = new JaegerExporter();
   }
 
   provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));
diff --git a/examples/http/tracer.js b/examples/http/tracer.js
index 25e97ccc06..d73db897c2 100644
--- a/examples/http/tracer.js
+++ b/examples/http/tracer.js
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 const opentelemetry = require('@opentelemetry/api');
 const { registerInstrumentations } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation');
 const { NodeTracerProvider } = require('@opentelemetry/node');
+const { Resource } = require('@opentelemetry/resources');
+const { ResourceAttributes } = require('@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions');
 const { SimpleSpanProcessor } = require('@opentelemetry/tracing');
 const { JaegerExporter } = require('@opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger');
 const { ZipkinExporter } = require('@opentelemetry/exporter-zipkin');
@@ -11,17 +13,17 @@ const { HttpInstrumentation } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-http');
 const EXPORTER = process.env.EXPORTER || '';
 
 module.exports = (serviceName) => {
-  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
+  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
+    resource: new Resource({
+      [ResourceAttributes.SERVICE_NAME]: serviceName,
+    }),
+  });
 
   let exporter;
   if (EXPORTER.toLowerCase().startsWith('z')) {
-    exporter = new ZipkinExporter({
-      serviceName,
-    });
+    exporter = new ZipkinExporter();
   } else {
-    exporter = new JaegerExporter({
-      serviceName,
-    });
+    exporter = new JaegerExporter();
   }
 
   provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));
diff --git a/examples/https/tracer.js b/examples/https/tracer.js
index dbee05b099..1f7be3fb10 100644
--- a/examples/https/tracer.js
+++ b/examples/https/tracer.js
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 const opentelemetry = require('@opentelemetry/api');
 const { registerInstrumentations } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation');
 const { NodeTracerProvider } = require('@opentelemetry/node');
+const { Resource } = require('@opentelemetry/resources');
+const { ResourceAttributes } = require('@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions');
 const { SimpleSpanProcessor } = require('@opentelemetry/tracing');
 const { JaegerExporter } = require('@opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger');
 const { ZipkinExporter } = require('@opentelemetry/exporter-zipkin');
@@ -13,16 +15,16 @@ process.env.NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED = '0';
 
 module.exports = (serviceName) => {
   let exporter;
-  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
+  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
+    resource: new Resource({
+      [ResourceAttributes.SERVICE_NAME]: serviceName,
+    }),
+  });
 
   if (EXPORTER.toLowerCase().startsWith('z')) {
-    exporter = new ZipkinExporter({
-      serviceName,
-    });
+    exporter = new ZipkinExporter();
   } else {
-    exporter = new JaegerExporter({
-      serviceName,
-    });
+    exporter = new JaegerExporter();
   }
 
   provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));
diff --git a/examples/tracer-web/examples/metrics/index.js b/examples/tracer-web/examples/metrics/index.js
index 3e546ac3fd..91c8fe4610 100644
--- a/examples/tracer-web/examples/metrics/index.js
+++ b/examples/tracer-web/examples/metrics/index.js
@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@
 const { DiagConsoleLogger, DiagLogLevel, diag } = require('@opentelemetry/api');
 const { CollectorMetricExporter } = require('@opentelemetry/exporter-collector');
 const { MeterProvider } = require('@opentelemetry/metrics');
+const { Resource } = require('@opentelemetry/resources');
+const { ResourceAttributes } = require('@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions');
 
 // Optional and only needed to see the internal diagnostic logging (during development)
 diag.setLogger(new DiagConsoleLogger(), DiagLogLevel.DEBUG);
 
-const metricExporter = new CollectorMetricExporter({
-  serviceName: 'basic-metric-service',
-});
+const metricExporter = new CollectorMetricExporter();
 
 let interval;
 let meter;
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ function startMetrics() {
   meter = new MeterProvider({
     exporter: metricExporter,
     interval: 1000,
+    resource: new Resource({
+      [ResourceAttributes.SERVICE_NAME]: 'basic-metric-service',
+    }),
   }).getMeter('example-exporter-collector');
 
   const requestCounter = meter.createCounter('requests', {
diff --git a/getting-started/README.md b/getting-started/README.md
index 6a4cc827f3..1e88a2e593 100644
--- a/getting-started/README.md
+++ b/getting-started/README.md
@@ -125,20 +125,25 @@ After you install these dependencies, initialize and register them. Modify `trac
 
 const { diag, DiagConsoleLogger, DiagLogLevel } = require("@opentelemetry/api");
 const { NodeTracerProvider } = require("@opentelemetry/node");
+const { Resource } = require('@opentelemetry/resources');
+const { ResourceAttributes } = require('@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions');
 const { SimpleSpanProcessor } = require("@opentelemetry/tracing");
 const { ZipkinExporter } = require("@opentelemetry/exporter-zipkin");
 const { registerInstrumentations } = require("@opentelemetry/instrumentation");
 const { HttpInstrumentation } = require("@opentelemetry/instrumentation-http");
 const { GrpcInstrumentation } = require("@opentelemetry/instrumentation-grpc");
 
-const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
+const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
+  resource: new Resource({
+    [ResourceAttributes.SERVICE_NAME]: "getting-started",
+  })
+});
 
 diag.setLogger(new DiagConsoleLogger(), DiagLogLevel.ALL);
 
 provider.addSpanProcessor(
   new SimpleSpanProcessor(
     new ZipkinExporter({
-      serviceName: "getting-started",
       // If you are running your tracing backend on another host,
       // you can point to it using the `url` parameter of the
       // exporter config.
diff --git a/getting-started/traced-example/tracing.js b/getting-started/traced-example/tracing.js
index 5c3172682d..e1ac8b3264 100644
--- a/getting-started/traced-example/tracing.js
+++ b/getting-started/traced-example/tracing.js
@@ -2,17 +2,22 @@
 
 const { NodeTracerProvider } = require("@opentelemetry/node");
 const { SimpleSpanProcessor } = require("@opentelemetry/tracing");
+const { Resource } = require('@opentelemetry/resources');
+const { ResourceAttributes } = require('@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions');
 const { ZipkinExporter } = require("@opentelemetry/exporter-zipkin");
 const { registerInstrumentations } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation');
 const { ExpressInstrumentation } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-express');
 const { HttpInstrumentation } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-http');
 
-const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
+const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
+  resource: new Resource({
+    [ResourceAttributes.SERVICE_NAME]: "getting-started",
+  })
+});
 
 provider.addSpanProcessor(
   new SimpleSpanProcessor(
     new ZipkinExporter({
-      serviceName: "getting-started"
       // If you are running your tracing backend on another host,
       // you can point to it using the `url` parameter of the
       // exporter config.
diff --git a/getting-started/ts-example/README.md b/getting-started/ts-example/README.md
index 7c2b28d8f4..b4c75a5407 100644
--- a/getting-started/ts-example/README.md
+++ b/getting-started/ts-example/README.md
@@ -134,6 +134,9 @@ import { HttpInstrumentation } from '@opentelemetry/instrumentation-http';
 
 const provider: NodeTracerProvider = new NodeTracerProvider({
   logLevel: LogLevel.ERROR,
+  resource: new Resource({
+    [ResourceAttributes.SERVICE_NAME]: 'getting-started',
+  }),
 });
 
 provider.addSpanProcessor(
@@ -141,7 +144,6 @@ provider.addSpanProcessor(
     new ZipkinExporter({
       // For Jaeger, use the following line instead:
       // new JaegerExporter({
-      serviceName: 'getting-started',
       // If you are running your tracing backend on another host,
       // you can point to it using the `url` parameter of the
       // exporter config.
diff --git a/getting-started/ts-example/traced-example/tracing.ts b/getting-started/ts-example/traced-example/tracing.ts
index 4598578ef2..1d0f400fe4 100644
--- a/getting-started/ts-example/traced-example/tracing.ts
+++ b/getting-started/ts-example/traced-example/tracing.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 import { NodeTracerProvider } from '@opentelemetry/node';
+const { Resource } = require('@opentelemetry/resources');
+const { ResourceAttributes } = require('@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions');
 
 import { SimpleSpanProcessor } from '@opentelemetry/tracing';
 import { ZipkinExporter } from '@opentelemetry/exporter-zipkin';
@@ -9,13 +11,16 @@ const { registerInstrumentations } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation');
 const { ExpressInstrumentation } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-express');
 const { HttpInstrumentation } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-http');
 
-const provider: NodeTracerProvider = new NodeTracerProvider();
+const provider: NodeTracerProvider = new NodeTracerProvider({
+  resource: new Resource({
+    [ResourceAttributes.SERVICE_NAME]: 'getting-started',
+  }),
+});
 provider.addSpanProcessor(
   new SimpleSpanProcessor(
     new ZipkinExporter({
       // For Jaeger, use the following line instead:
       // new JaegerExporter({
-      serviceName: 'getting-started',
       // If you are running your tracing backend on another host,
       // you can point to it using the `url` parameter of the
       // exporter config.
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger/README.md b/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger/README.md
index 575689d9af..1c8bd0886a 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger/README.md
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger/README.md
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ set, the value set by the option in code is authoritative.
 import { JaegerExporter } from '@opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger';
 
 const options = {
-  serviceName: 'my-service',
   tags: [], // optional
   // You can use the default UDPSender
   host: 'localhost', // optional
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/README.md b/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/README.md
index b5f8d58a85..91e321eb8a 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/README.md
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/README.md
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ const options = {
     'my-header': 'header-value',
   },
   url: 'your-zipkin-url',
-  serviceName: 'your-application-name',
   // optional interceptor
   getExportRequestHeaders: () => {
     return {
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/README.md b/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/README.md
index 81a3bacc4a..e9c57e0332 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/README.md
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/README.md
@@ -45,9 +45,7 @@ const {
   getNodeAutoInstrumentations,
 } = require("@opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node");
 
-const jaegerExporter = new JaegerExporter({
-  serviceName: 'my-service',
-});
+const jaegerExporter = new JaegerExporter();
 const prometheusExporter = new PrometheusExporter({ startServer: true });
 
 const sdk = new opentelemetry.NodeSDK({