diff --git a/instrumentation-api/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/api/instrumenter/Instrumenter.java b/instrumentation-api/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/api/instrumenter/Instrumenter.java
index 3b5921c6d5..1dba5c526c 100644
--- a/instrumentation-api/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/api/instrumenter/Instrumenter.java
+++ b/instrumentation-api/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/api/instrumenter/Instrumenter.java
@@ -58,7 +58,34 @@ public class Instrumenter<REQUEST, RESPONSE> {
       OpenTelemetry openTelemetry,
       String instrumentationName,
       SpanNameExtractor<? super REQUEST> spanNameExtractor) {
-    return new InstrumenterBuilder<>(openTelemetry, instrumentationName, spanNameExtractor);
+    return new InstrumenterBuilder<>(
+        openTelemetry, instrumentationName, InstrumentationVersion.VERSION, spanNameExtractor);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns a new {@link InstrumenterBuilder}.
+   *
+   * <p>The {@code instrumentationName} is the name of the instrumentation library, not the name of
+   * the instrument*ed* library. The value passed in this parameter should uniquely identify the
+   * instrumentation library so that during troubleshooting it's possible to pinpoint what tracer
+   * produced problematic telemetry.
+   *
+   * <p>The {@code instrumentationVersion} is the version of the instrumentation library, not the
+   * version of the instrument*ed* library.
+   *
+   * <p>In this project we use a convention to encode the minimum supported version of the
+   * instrument*ed* library into the instrumentation name, for example {@code
+   * io.opentelemetry.apache-httpclient-4.0}. This way, if there are different instrumentations for
+   * different library versions it's easy to find out which instrumentations produced the telemetry
+   * data.
+   */
+  public static <REQUEST, RESPONSE> InstrumenterBuilder<REQUEST, RESPONSE> builder(
+      OpenTelemetry openTelemetry,
+      String instrumentationName,
+      String instrumentationVersion,
+      SpanNameExtractor<? super REQUEST> spanNameExtractor) {
+    return new InstrumenterBuilder<>(
+        openTelemetry, instrumentationName, instrumentationVersion, spanNameExtractor);
   }
 
   private static final SupportabilityMetrics supportability = SupportabilityMetrics.instance();
@@ -82,7 +109,7 @@ public class Instrumenter<REQUEST, RESPONSE> {
   Instrumenter(InstrumenterBuilder<REQUEST, RESPONSE> builder) {
     this.instrumentationName = builder.instrumentationName;
     this.tracer =
-        builder.openTelemetry.getTracer(instrumentationName, InstrumentationVersion.VERSION);
+        builder.openTelemetry.getTracer(instrumentationName, builder.instrumentationVersion);
     this.spanNameExtractor = builder.spanNameExtractor;
     this.spanKindExtractor = builder.spanKindExtractor;
     this.spanStatusExtractor = builder.spanStatusExtractor;
diff --git a/instrumentation-api/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/api/instrumenter/InstrumenterBuilder.java b/instrumentation-api/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/api/instrumenter/InstrumenterBuilder.java
index 652d09ec86..18b7fa0e04 100644
--- a/instrumentation-api/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/api/instrumenter/InstrumenterBuilder.java
+++ b/instrumentation-api/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/api/instrumenter/InstrumenterBuilder.java
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ public final class InstrumenterBuilder<REQUEST, RESPONSE> {
   final OpenTelemetry openTelemetry;
   final Meter meter;
   final String instrumentationName;
+  final String instrumentationVersion;
   final SpanNameExtractor<? super REQUEST> spanNameExtractor;
 
   final List<SpanLinksExtractor<? super REQUEST>> spanLinksExtractors = new ArrayList<>();
@@ -63,11 +64,13 @@ public final class InstrumenterBuilder<REQUEST, RESPONSE> {
   InstrumenterBuilder(
       OpenTelemetry openTelemetry,
       String instrumentationName,
+      String instrumentationVersion,
       SpanNameExtractor<? super REQUEST> spanNameExtractor) {
     this.openTelemetry = openTelemetry;
     // TODO(anuraaga): Retrieve from openTelemetry when not alpha anymore.
     this.meter = GlobalMeterProvider.get().get(instrumentationName);
     this.instrumentationName = instrumentationName;
+    this.instrumentationVersion = instrumentationVersion;
     this.spanNameExtractor = spanNameExtractor;
   }
 
diff --git a/instrumentation-api/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/api/instrumenter/InstrumenterTest.java b/instrumentation-api/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/api/instrumenter/InstrumenterTest.java
index b86cea5592..1786fc431a 100644
--- a/instrumentation-api/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/api/instrumenter/InstrumenterTest.java
+++ b/instrumentation-api/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/api/instrumenter/InstrumenterTest.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import io.opentelemetry.api.trace.propagation.W3CTraceContextPropagator;
 import io.opentelemetry.context.Context;
 import io.opentelemetry.context.ContextKey;
 import io.opentelemetry.context.propagation.TextMapGetter;
+import io.opentelemetry.instrumentation.api.InstrumentationVersion;
 import io.opentelemetry.instrumentation.api.instrumenter.db.DbAttributesExtractor;
 import io.opentelemetry.instrumentation.api.instrumenter.http.HttpClientAttributesExtractor;
 import io.opentelemetry.instrumentation.api.instrumenter.http.HttpServerAttributesExtractor;
@@ -641,6 +642,53 @@ class InstrumenterTest {
     assertThat(SpanKey.PRODUCER.fromContextOrNull(context)).isNull();
   }
 
+  @Test
+  void instrumentationVersion_default() {
+    InstrumenterBuilder<Map<String, String>, Map<String, String>> builder =
+        Instrumenter.builder(otelTesting.getOpenTelemetry(), "test", name -> "span");
+
+    Instrumenter<Map<String, String>, Map<String, String>> instrumenter = builder.newInstrumenter();
+
+    Context context = instrumenter.start(Context.root(), Collections.emptyMap());
+    assertThat(Span.fromContext(context)).isNotNull();
+
+    instrumenter.end(context, Collections.emptyMap(), Collections.emptyMap(), null);
+
+    otelTesting
+        .assertTraces()
+        .hasTracesSatisfyingExactly(
+            trace ->
+                trace.hasSpansSatisfyingExactly(
+                    span ->
+                        span.hasName("span")
+                            .hasInstrumentationLibraryInfo(
+                                InstrumentationLibraryInfo.create(
+                                    "test", InstrumentationVersion.VERSION))));
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  void instrumentationVersion_custom() {
+    InstrumenterBuilder<Map<String, String>, Map<String, String>> builder =
+        Instrumenter.builder(otelTesting.getOpenTelemetry(), "test", "1.0", name -> "span");
+
+    Instrumenter<Map<String, String>, Map<String, String>> instrumenter = builder.newInstrumenter();
+
+    Context context = instrumenter.start(Context.root(), Collections.emptyMap());
+    assertThat(Span.fromContext(context)).isNotNull();
+
+    instrumenter.end(context, Collections.emptyMap(), Collections.emptyMap(), null);
+
+    otelTesting
+        .assertTraces()
+        .hasTracesSatisfyingExactly(
+            trace ->
+                trace.hasSpansSatisfyingExactly(
+                    span ->
+                        span.hasName("span")
+                            .hasInstrumentationLibraryInfo(
+                                InstrumentationLibraryInfo.create("test", "1.0"))));
+  }
+
   private static void validateInstrumentationTypeSpanPresent(SpanKey spanKey, Context context) {
     Span span = Span.fromContext(context);