diff --git a/examples/connect/tracing.js b/examples/connect/tracing.js
index 7639af2925..bbc8994126 100644
--- a/examples/connect/tracing.js
+++ b/examples/connect/tracing.js
@@ -22,10 +22,14 @@ function log() {
 }
 
 module.exports = (serviceName) => {
+  const exporter = new CollectorTraceExporter();
   const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
     resource: new Resource({
       [SEMRESATTRS_SERVICE_NAME]: serviceName,
     }),
+    spanProcessors: [
+      new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter),
+    ],
   });
   const connectInstrumentation = new ConnectInstrumentation();
   registerInstrumentations({
@@ -37,10 +41,6 @@ module.exports = (serviceName) => {
     ],
   });
 
-  const exporter = new CollectorTraceExporter();
-
-  provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));
-
   // Initialize the OpenTelemetry APIs to use the NodeTracerProvider bindings
   provider.register({});
   return {
diff --git a/examples/dns/tracer.js b/examples/dns/tracer.js
index a2cee3295c..1dbc49fc73 100644
--- a/examples/dns/tracer.js
+++ b/examples/dns/tracer.js
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ const { registerInstrumentations } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation');
 const EXPORTER = process.env.EXPORTER || '';
 
 module.exports = (serviceName) => {
-  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
-
   let exporter;
   if (EXPORTER.toLowerCase().startsWith('z')) {
     exporter = new ZipkinExporter({
@@ -24,7 +22,11 @@ module.exports = (serviceName) => {
     });
   }
 
-  provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));
+  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
+    spanProcessors: [
+      new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter),
+    ],
+  });
 
   // Initialize the OpenTelemetry APIs to use the NodeTracerProvider bindings
   provider.register();
diff --git a/examples/express/src/tracer.ts b/examples/express/src/tracer.ts
index b86e92b712..d7122604cc 100644
--- a/examples/express/src/tracer.ts
+++ b/examples/express/src/tracer.ts
@@ -11,10 +11,14 @@ import { ExpressInstrumentation } from '@opentelemetry/instrumentation-express';
 import { HttpInstrumentation } from '@opentelemetry/instrumentation-http';
 
 export const setupTracing = (serviceName: string) => {
+  const exporter = new OTLPTraceExporter({});
   const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
     resource: new Resource({
       [ATTR_SERVICE_NAME]: serviceName,
     }),
+    spanProcessors: [
+      new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter),
+    ],
     sampler: filterSampler(ignoreHealthCheck, new AlwaysOnSampler()),
   });
   registerInstrumentations({
@@ -26,10 +30,6 @@ export const setupTracing = (serviceName: string) => {
     ],
   });
 
-  const exporter = new OTLPTraceExporter({});
-
-  provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));
-
   // Initialize the OpenTelemetry APIs to use the NodeTracerProvider bindings
   provider.register();
 
diff --git a/examples/graphql/tracer.js b/examples/graphql/tracer.js
index 82a24edde8..c718f57532 100644
--- a/examples/graphql/tracer.js
+++ b/examples/graphql/tracer.js
@@ -14,10 +14,12 @@ const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
   resource: new Resource({
     [SEMRESATTRS_SERVICE_NAME]: 'graphql-service',
   }),
+  spanProcessors: [
+    new SimpleSpanProcessor(new OTLPTraceExporter()),
+    new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ConsoleSpanExporter()),
+  ],
 });
 
-provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(new OTLPTraceExporter()));
-provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ConsoleSpanExporter()));
 provider.register();
 
 registerInstrumentations({
diff --git a/examples/grpc-census-prop/tracer.js b/examples/grpc-census-prop/tracer.js
index b8241dc2b1..7fcb590fdc 100644
--- a/examples/grpc-census-prop/tracer.js
+++ b/examples/grpc-census-prop/tracer.js
@@ -13,11 +13,13 @@ const { GrpcInstrumentation } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-grpc');
  * requested propagator
  */
 module.exports = (serviceName, binaryPropagator) => {
-  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
-
-  // It is recommended to use this `BatchSpanProcessor` for better performance
-  // and optimization, especially in production.
-  provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ConsoleSpanExporter()));
+  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
+    spanProcessors: [
+      // It is recommended to use `BatchSpanProcessor` for better performance
+      // and optimization, especially in production.
+      new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ConsoleSpanExporter()),
+    ],
+  });
 
   if (binaryPropagator) {
     // Initialize the OpenTelemetry APIs to use the NodeTracerProvider bindings
diff --git a/examples/hapi/tracer.js b/examples/hapi/tracer.js
index 9c335d108b..cf0993eda7 100644
--- a/examples/hapi/tracer.js
+++ b/examples/hapi/tracer.js
@@ -12,15 +12,18 @@ const { registerInstrumentations } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation');
 const EXPORTER = process.env.EXPORTER || '';
 
 module.exports = (serviceName) => {
-  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
-
   let exporter;
   if (EXPORTER === 'jaeger') {
     exporter = new JaegerExporter({ serviceName });
   } else {
     exporter = new ZipkinExporter({ serviceName });
   }
-  provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));
+
+  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
+    spanProcessors: [
+      new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter),
+    ],
+  });
 
   // Initialize the OpenTelemetry APIs to use the NodeTracerProvider bindings
   provider.register();
diff --git a/examples/ioredis/tracer.js b/examples/ioredis/tracer.js
index 6d18533d9a..1b0701cd76 100644
--- a/examples/ioredis/tracer.js
+++ b/examples/ioredis/tracer.js
@@ -7,11 +7,13 @@ const { JaegerExporter } = require('@opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger');
 const { IORedisInstrumentation } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-ioredis');
 const { registerInstrumentations } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation');
 
-const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
-
 const exporter = new JaegerExporter({ serviceName: 'ioredis-example' });
 
-provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));
+const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
+  spanProcessors: [
+    new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter),
+  ],
+});
 
 // Initialize the OpenTelemetry APIs to use the BasicTracer bindings
 provider.register();
diff --git a/examples/koa/src/tracer.ts b/examples/koa/src/tracer.ts
index d0a3321a68..1a06e748c4 100644
--- a/examples/koa/src/tracer.ts
+++ b/examples/koa/src/tracer.ts
@@ -15,19 +15,21 @@ import { SEMRESATTRS_SERVICE_NAME } from '@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions'
 const EXPORTER = process.env.EXPORTER || '';
 
 export const setupTracing = (serviceName: string) => {
-  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
-    resource: new Resource({
-      [SEMRESATTRS_SERVICE_NAME]: serviceName
-    })
-  });
-
   let exporter;
   if (EXPORTER === 'jaeger') {
     exporter = new JaegerExporter();
   } else {
     exporter = new ZipkinExporter();
   }
-  provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));
+
+  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
+    resource: new Resource({
+      [SEMRESATTRS_SERVICE_NAME]: serviceName
+    }),
+    spanProcessors: [
+      new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter),
+    ],
+  });
 
   registerInstrumentations({
     instrumentations: [
diff --git a/examples/memcached/tracer.js b/examples/memcached/tracer.js
index 285233199a..aecd74956b 100644
--- a/examples/memcached/tracer.js
+++ b/examples/memcached/tracer.js
@@ -14,10 +14,14 @@ const { SEMRESATTRS_SERVICE_NAME } = require('@opentelemetry/semantic-convention
 const { MemcachedInstrumentation } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation-memcached');
 
 module.exports = (serviceName) => {
+  const exporter = new ConsoleSpanExporter();
   const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
     resource: new Resource({
       [SEMRESATTRS_SERVICE_NAME]: serviceName,
     }),
+    spanProcessors: [
+      new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter),
+    ],
   });
   registerInstrumentations({
     tracerProvider: provider,
@@ -26,10 +30,6 @@ module.exports = (serviceName) => {
     ],
   });
 
-  const exporter = new ConsoleSpanExporter();
-
-  provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));
-
   // Initialize the OpenTelemetry APIs to use the NodeTracerProvider bindings
   provider.register();
 
diff --git a/examples/meta-node/tracer.js b/examples/meta-node/tracer.js
index 4636e30392..50cbb957c6 100644
--- a/examples/meta-node/tracer.js
+++ b/examples/meta-node/tracer.js
@@ -17,8 +17,11 @@ module.exports = () => {
     serviceName: 'basic-service',
   });
 
-  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
-  provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));
+  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
+    spanProcessors: [
+      new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter),
+    ],
+  });
   provider.register();
 
   registerInstrumentations({
diff --git a/examples/mongodb/src/tracer.ts b/examples/mongodb/src/tracer.ts
index a9599dec35..f3d9acdc68 100644
--- a/examples/mongodb/src/tracer.ts
+++ b/examples/mongodb/src/tracer.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ export const setupTracing = (serviceName: string): api.Tracer => {
     resource: new Resource({
       [ATTR_SERVICE_NAME]: serviceName,
     }),
+    spanProcessors: [
+      new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ZipkinExporter()),
+      new SimpleSpanProcessor(new OTLPTraceExporter()),
+    ],
   });
 
   // Initialize the OpenTelemetry APIs to use the NodeTracerProvider bindings
@@ -30,8 +34,5 @@ export const setupTracing = (serviceName: string): api.Tracer => {
     tracerProvider: provider,
   });
 
-  provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ZipkinExporter()));
-  provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(new OTLPTraceExporter()));
-
   return api.trace.getTracer('mongodb-example');
 };
diff --git a/examples/mysql/src/tracer.ts b/examples/mysql/src/tracer.ts
index 2ded0e2567..32ec30136f 100644
--- a/examples/mysql/src/tracer.ts
+++ b/examples/mysql/src/tracer.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 import opentelemetry from '@opentelemetry/api';
 import { NodeTracerProvider } from '@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-node';
-import { SimpleSpanProcessor } from '@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-base';
+import { SimpleSpanProcessor, SpanProcessor } from '@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-base';
 import { ZipkinExporter } from '@opentelemetry/exporter-zipkin';
 import { registerInstrumentations } from '@opentelemetry/instrumentation';
 import { HttpInstrumentation } from '@opentelemetry/instrumentation-http';
@@ -30,15 +30,19 @@ export const setupTracing = (serviceName: string) => {
   meterProvider.addMetricReader(metricReader);
 
   //traces:
-  const tracerProvider = new NodeTracerProvider({
-    resource: new Resource({
-    [SEMRESATTRS_SERVICE_NAME]: serviceName,
-  }),});
+  const spanProcessors: SpanProcessor[] = [];
 
   if (EXPORTER.toLowerCase().startsWith('z')) {
-    tracerProvider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ZipkinExporter()));
+    spanProcessors.push(new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ZipkinExporter()));
   }
 
+  const tracerProvider = new NodeTracerProvider({
+    resource: new Resource({
+      [SEMRESATTRS_SERVICE_NAME]: serviceName,
+    }),
+    spanProcessors,
+  });
+
   // Initialize the OpenTelemetry APIs to use the NodeTracerProvider bindings
   tracerProvider.register();
 
diff --git a/examples/network/client.js b/examples/network/client.js
index 5ce3523971..8aad8eb04e 100644
--- a/examples/network/client.js
+++ b/examples/network/client.js
@@ -9,13 +9,14 @@ const { registerInstrumentations } = require('@opentelemetry/instrumentation');
 const { SimpleSpanProcessor, ConsoleSpanExporter } = require('@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-base');
 const { JaegerExporter } = require('@opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger');
 
-const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
-
-provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(new JaegerExporter({
-  serviceName: 'http-client',
-})));
-
-provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ConsoleSpanExporter()));
+const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
+  spanProcessors: [
+    new SimpleSpanProcessor(new JaegerExporter({
+      serviceName: 'http-client',
+    })),
+    new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ConsoleSpanExporter()),
+  ],
+});
 
 provider.register();
 
diff --git a/examples/react-load/preact/src/web-tracer.js b/examples/react-load/preact/src/web-tracer.js
index b52d436e0a..f974a91b96 100644
--- a/examples/react-load/preact/src/web-tracer.js
+++ b/examples/react-load/preact/src/web-tracer.js
@@ -7,13 +7,15 @@ import { OTLPTraceExporter } from '@opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-http';
 
 export default (serviceName) => {
   diag.setLogger(new DiagConsoleLogger(), DiagLogLevel.DEBUG);
-  const provider = new WebTracerProvider();
   const exporter = new OTLPTraceExporter({
     url: 'http://localhost:4318/v1/traces',
   });
-
-  provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ConsoleSpanExporter()));
-  provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));
+  const provider = new WebTracerProvider({
+    spanProcessors: [
+      new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ConsoleSpanExporter()),
+      new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter),
+    ],
+  });
 
   provider.register({
     contextManager: new ZoneContextManager(),
diff --git a/examples/react-load/react/src/web-tracer.js b/examples/react-load/react/src/web-tracer.js
index 80796da13e..d026455dff 100644
--- a/examples/react-load/react/src/web-tracer.js
+++ b/examples/react-load/react/src/web-tracer.js
@@ -8,19 +8,20 @@ import { Resource } from '@opentelemetry/resources';
 import { SEMRESATTRS_SERVICE_NAME } from '@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions'
 
 export default (serviceName) => {
+  const exporter = new CollectorTraceExporter({
+    url: 'http://localhost:55678/v1/trace',
+  });
+
   const provider = new WebTracerProvider({
     resource: new Resource({
         [SEMRESATTRS_SERVICE_NAME]: "react-load-example"
     }),
+    spanProcessors: [
+      new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ConsoleSpanExporter()),
+      new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter),
+    ],
   });
 
-  const exporter = new CollectorTraceExporter({
-    url: 'http://localhost:55678/v1/trace',
-  });
-
-  provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ConsoleSpanExporter()));
-  provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));
-
   provider.register({
     contextManager: new ZoneContextManager(),
   });
diff --git a/examples/redis/src/tracer.ts b/examples/redis/src/tracer.ts
index de70a60418..91eb03bec2 100644
--- a/examples/redis/src/tracer.ts
+++ b/examples/redis/src/tracer.ts
@@ -14,11 +14,6 @@ import { SEMRESATTRS_SERVICE_NAME } from '@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions';
 const EXPORTER = process.env.EXPORTER || '';
 
 export const setupTracing = (serviceName: string) => {
-  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
-    resource: new Resource({
-    [SEMRESATTRS_SERVICE_NAME]: serviceName,
-  }),});
-
   let exporter;
   if (EXPORTER.toLowerCase().startsWith('z')) {
     exporter = new ZipkinExporter();
@@ -26,7 +21,14 @@ export const setupTracing = (serviceName: string) => {
     exporter = new JaegerExporter();
   }
 
-  provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));
+  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
+    resource: new Resource({
+      [SEMRESATTRS_SERVICE_NAME]: serviceName,
+    }),
+    spanProcessors: [
+      new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter),
+    ]
+  });
 
   // Initialize the OpenTelemetry APIs to use the NodeTracerProvider bindings
   provider.register();
diff --git a/examples/restify/tracer.js b/examples/restify/tracer.js
index ddeecc3b8d..b2712adf03 100644
--- a/examples/restify/tracer.js
+++ b/examples/restify/tracer.js
@@ -28,7 +28,16 @@ const Exporter = ((exporterParam) => {
 })(process.env.EXPORTER);
 
 module.exports = (serviceName) => {
-  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
+  const exporter = new Exporter({
+    serviceName,
+  });
+
+  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
+    spanProcessors: [
+      new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter),
+    ],
+  });
+
   registerInstrumentations({
     tracerProvider: provider,
     instrumentations: [
@@ -37,12 +46,6 @@ module.exports = (serviceName) => {
     ],
   });
 
-  const exporter = new Exporter({
-    serviceName,
-  });
-
-  provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));
-
   // Initialize the OpenTelemetry APIs to use the NodeTracerProvider bindings
   provider.register();
 
diff --git a/examples/router/tracer.js b/examples/router/tracer.js
index 63aaaaa0a5..73ee585060 100644
--- a/examples/router/tracer.js
+++ b/examples/router/tracer.js
@@ -28,7 +28,16 @@ const Exporter = ((exporterParam) => {
 })(process.env.EXPORTER);
 
 module.exports = (serviceName) => {
-  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
+  const exporter = new Exporter({
+    serviceName,
+  });
+
+  const provider = new NodeTracerProvider({
+    spanProcessors: [
+      new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter),
+    ],
+  });
+
   registerInstrumentations({
     tracerProvider: provider,
     instrumentations: [
@@ -37,12 +46,6 @@ module.exports = (serviceName) => {
     ],
   });
 
-  const exporter = new Exporter({
-    serviceName,
-  });
-
-  provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));
-
   // Initialize the OpenTelemetry APIs to use the NodeTracerProvider bindings
   provider.register();
 
diff --git a/examples/web/examples/document-load/index.js b/examples/web/examples/document-load/index.js
index 65db02bba3..c09039b587 100644
--- a/examples/web/examples/document-load/index.js
+++ b/examples/web/examples/document-load/index.js
@@ -15,11 +15,12 @@ const provider = new WebTracerProvider({
   resource: new Resource({
     [SEMRESATTRS_SERVICE_NAME]: 'web-service-dl',
   }),
+  spanProcessors: [
+    new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ConsoleSpanExporter()),
+    new SimpleSpanProcessor(new OTLPTraceExporter()),
+  ],
 });
 
-provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ConsoleSpanExporter()));
-provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(new OTLPTraceExporter()));
-
 provider.register({
   contextManager: new ZoneContextManager(),
   propagator: new CompositePropagator({
diff --git a/examples/web/examples/meta/index.js b/examples/web/examples/meta/index.js
index 8b9cb5ad41..90e6e4ae73 100644
--- a/examples/web/examples/meta/index.js
+++ b/examples/web/examples/meta/index.js
@@ -12,11 +12,12 @@ const providerWithZone = new WebTracerProvider({
   resource: new Resource({
     [SEMRESATTRS_SERVICE_NAME]: 'web-service-meta',
   }),
+  spanProcessors: [
+    new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ConsoleSpanExporter()),
+    new SimpleSpanProcessor(new OTLPTraceExporter()),
+  ],
 });
 
-providerWithZone.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ConsoleSpanExporter()));
-providerWithZone.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(new OTLPTraceExporter()));
-
 providerWithZone.register({
   contextManager: new ZoneContextManager(),
   propagator: new B3Propagator(),
diff --git a/examples/web/examples/user-interaction/index.js b/examples/web/examples/user-interaction/index.js
index b75cae65d5..0360f13577 100644
--- a/examples/web/examples/user-interaction/index.js
+++ b/examples/web/examples/user-interaction/index.js
@@ -13,11 +13,12 @@ const providerWithZone = new WebTracerProvider({
   resource: new Resource({
     [SEMRESATTRS_SERVICE_NAME]: 'web-service-ui',
   }),
+  spanProcessors: [
+    new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ConsoleSpanExporter()),
+    new SimpleSpanProcessor(new OTLPTraceExporter()),
+  ],
 });
 
-providerWithZone.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ConsoleSpanExporter()));
-providerWithZone.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(new OTLPTraceExporter()));
-
 providerWithZone.register({
   contextManager: new ZoneContextManager(),
   propagator: new B3Propagator(),