From 37619eada96e44be156ffec47b3ff689889f234c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Xie <sam@samxie.me>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 03:24:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add example for stdoutlog (#5242)

---
 CHANGELOG.md                               |  1 +
 exporters/stdout/stdoutlog/example_test.go | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 exporters/stdout/stdoutlog/example_test.go

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7d79b68ca82..8eba638ff43 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.htm
 
 - Add `RecordFactory` in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/log/logtest` to facilitate testing the bridge implementations. (#5263)
 - Add `RecordFactory` in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log/logtest` to facilitate testing the exporter and processor implementations. (#5258)
+- Add example for `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/stdout/stdoutlog`. (#5242)
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/exporters/stdout/stdoutlog/example_test.go b/exporters/stdout/stdoutlog/example_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6498060337b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/exporters/stdout/stdoutlog/example_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+// Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+package stdoutlog_test
+
+import (
+	"context"
+
+	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/stdout/stdoutlog"
+	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/log/global"
+	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log"
+)
+
+func Example() {
+	exp, err := stdoutlog.New()
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+
+	processor := log.NewSimpleProcessor(exp)
+	provider := log.NewLoggerProvider(log.WithProcessor(processor))
+	defer func() {
+		if err := provider.Shutdown(context.Background()); err != nil {
+			panic(err)
+		}
+	}()
+
+	global.SetLoggerProvider(provider)
+
+	// From here, the provider can be used by instrumentation to collect
+	// telemetry.
+}