1The instrumentation Registry contains information about available
2instrumentation, facilitates discovery, installation, and configuration.
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4The Registry allows for instrumentation to avoid depending directly on a
5specific SDK implementation.
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7The SDK depends on the Registry, the instrumentation Base class depends on the
8Registry, and auto instrumentation libraries extend the instrumentation Base
9class.
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11The motivation for decoupling the Registry (and by extension the
12instrumentation) from a specific SDK implementation means that anyone can
13implement their own OpenTelemetry API compatible SDK, and they could continue to
14use community made instrumentation.
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