diff --git a/getting-started/README.md b/getting-started/README.md
index e5129c46941..ae6bb5a15b5 100644
--- a/getting-started/README.md
+++ b/getting-started/README.md
@@ -74,13 +74,13 @@ Create a file named `tracing.js` and add the following code:
 'use strict';
 
 const opentelemetry = require("@opentelemetry/core");
-const { NodeTracer } = require("@opentelemetry/node");
+const { NodeTracerRegistry } = require("@opentelemetry/node");
 
-const tracer = new NodeTracer({
+const tracerRegistry = new NodeTracerRegistry({
   logLevel: opentelemetry.LogLevel.ERROR
 });
 
-opentelemetry.initGlobalTracer(tracer);
+opentelemetry.initGlobalTracerRegistry(tracerRegistry);
 ```
 
 If you run your application now with `node -r ./tracing.js app.js`, your application will create and propagate traces over HTTP. If an already instrumented service that supports [Trace Context](https://www.w3.org/TR/trace-context/) headers calls your application using HTTP, and you call another application using HTTP, the Trace Context headers will be correctly propagated.
@@ -110,18 +110,18 @@ After these dependencies are installed, we will need to initialize and register
 'use strict';
 
 const opentelemetry = require("@opentelemetry/core");
-const { NodeTracer } = require("@opentelemetry/node");
+const { NodeTracerRegistry } = require("@opentelemetry/node");
 
 const { SimpleSpanProcessor } = require("@opentelemetry/tracing");
 const { ZipkinExporter } = require("@opentelemetry/exporter-zipkin");
 
-const tracer = new NodeTracer({
+const tracerRegistry = new NodeTracerRegistry({
   logLevel: opentelemetry.LogLevel.ERROR
 });
 
-opentelemetry.initGlobalTracer(tracer);
+opentelemetry.initGlobalTracerRegistry(tracerRegistry);
 
-tracer.addSpanProcessor(
+tracerRegistry.addSpanProcessor(
   new SimpleSpanProcessor(
     new ZipkinExporter({
       serviceName: "getting-started",
diff --git a/getting-started/traced-example/tracing.js b/getting-started/traced-example/tracing.js
index 6a4007f3073..4f265d05393 100644
--- a/getting-started/traced-example/tracing.js
+++ b/getting-started/traced-example/tracing.js
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 "use strict";
 
 const opentelemetry = require("@opentelemetry/core");
-const { NodeTracer } = require("@opentelemetry/node");
+const { NodeTracerRegistry } = require("@opentelemetry/node");
 
 const { SimpleSpanProcessor } = require("@opentelemetry/tracing");
 const { ZipkinExporter } = require("@opentelemetry/exporter-zipkin");
 
-const tracer = new NodeTracer({ logLevel: opentelemetry.LogLevel.ERROR });
-opentelemetry.initGlobalTracer(tracer);
+const tracerRegistry = new NodeTracerRegistry({ logLevel: opentelemetry.LogLevel.ERROR });
+opentelemetry.initGlobalTracerRegistry(tracerRegistry);
 
 tracer.addSpanProcessor(
   new SimpleSpanProcessor(
diff --git a/getting-started/ts-example/tracing.ts b/getting-started/ts-example/tracing.ts
index 056217fb769..ddaac1a760e 100644
--- a/getting-started/ts-example/tracing.ts
+++ b/getting-started/ts-example/tracing.ts
@@ -1,16 +1,15 @@
 import * as opentelemetry from "@opentelemetry/core";
-import { NodeTracer } from "@opentelemetry/node";
-
+import { NodeTracerRegistry } from "@opentelemetry/node";
 import { SimpleSpanProcessor } from "@opentelemetry/tracing";
 import { ZipkinExporter } from "@opentelemetry/exporter-zipkin";
 
-const tracer: NodeTracer = new NodeTracer({
+const tracerRegistry: NodeTracerRegistry = new NodeTracerRegistry({
   logLevel: opentelemetry.LogLevel.ERROR
 });
 
-opentelemetry.initGlobalTracer(tracer);
+opentelemetry.initGlobalTracerRegistry(tracerRegistry);
 
-tracer.addSpanProcessor(
+tracerRegistry.addSpanProcessor(
   new SimpleSpanProcessor(
     new ZipkinExporter({
       serviceName: "getting-started"