diff --git a/instrumentation/java-util-logging/javaagent/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/jul/JavaUtilLoggingHelper.java b/instrumentation/java-util-logging/javaagent/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/jul/JavaUtilLoggingHelper.java
index 780e7307c8..dfc29d6ad6 100644
--- a/instrumentation/java-util-logging/javaagent/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/jul/JavaUtilLoggingHelper.java
+++ b/instrumentation/java-util-logging/javaagent/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/jul/JavaUtilLoggingHelper.java
@@ -9,14 +9,12 @@ import application.java.util.logging.Logger;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.GlobalOpenTelemetry;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.common.Attributes;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.common.AttributesBuilder;
+import io.opentelemetry.api.incubator.logs.ExtendedLogRecordBuilder;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.logs.LogRecordBuilder;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.logs.Severity;
 import io.opentelemetry.context.Context;
 import io.opentelemetry.javaagent.bootstrap.internal.AgentInstrumentationConfig;
-import io.opentelemetry.semconv.ExceptionAttributes;
 import io.opentelemetry.semconv.incubating.ThreadIncubatingAttributes;
-import java.io.PrintWriter;
-import java.io.StringWriter;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.logging.Formatter;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
@@ -85,13 +83,8 @@ public final class JavaUtilLoggingHelper {
     // throwable
     Throwable throwable = logRecord.getThrown();
     if (throwable != null) {
-      // TODO (trask) extract method for recording exception into
-      // io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-api
-      attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_TYPE, throwable.getClass().getName());
-      attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_MESSAGE, throwable.getMessage());
-      StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
-      throwable.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(writer));
-      attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_STACKTRACE, writer.toString());
+      // this cast is safe within java agent instrumentation
+      ((ExtendedLogRecordBuilder) builder).setException(throwable);
     }
 
     if (captureExperimentalAttributes) {
diff --git a/instrumentation/jboss-logmanager/jboss-logmanager-appender-1.1/javaagent/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/jbosslogmanager/appender/v1_1/LoggingEventMapper.java b/instrumentation/jboss-logmanager/jboss-logmanager-appender-1.1/javaagent/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/jbosslogmanager/appender/v1_1/LoggingEventMapper.java
index b8e13d2f3e..344c831605 100644
--- a/instrumentation/jboss-logmanager/jboss-logmanager-appender-1.1/javaagent/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/jbosslogmanager/appender/v1_1/LoggingEventMapper.java
+++ b/instrumentation/jboss-logmanager/jboss-logmanager-appender-1.1/javaagent/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/jbosslogmanager/appender/v1_1/LoggingEventMapper.java
@@ -12,15 +12,13 @@ import io.opentelemetry.api.GlobalOpenTelemetry;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.common.AttributeKey;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.common.Attributes;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.common.AttributesBuilder;
+import io.opentelemetry.api.incubator.logs.ExtendedLogRecordBuilder;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.logs.LogRecordBuilder;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.logs.Severity;
 import io.opentelemetry.context.Context;
 import io.opentelemetry.instrumentation.api.internal.cache.Cache;
 import io.opentelemetry.javaagent.bootstrap.internal.AgentInstrumentationConfig;
-import io.opentelemetry.semconv.ExceptionAttributes;
 import io.opentelemetry.semconv.incubating.ThreadIncubatingAttributes;
-import java.io.PrintWriter;
-import java.io.StringWriter;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import org.jboss.logmanager.ExtLogRecord;
@@ -81,13 +79,8 @@ public final class LoggingEventMapper {
 
     Throwable throwable = record.getThrown();
     if (throwable != null) {
-      // TODO (trask) extract method for recording exception into
-      // io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-api
-      attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_TYPE, throwable.getClass().getName());
-      attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_MESSAGE, throwable.getMessage());
-      StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
-      throwable.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(writer));
-      attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_STACKTRACE, writer.toString());
+      // this cast is safe within java agent instrumentation
+      ((ExtendedLogRecordBuilder) builder).setException(throwable);
     }
     captureMdcAttributes(attributes);
 
diff --git a/instrumentation/log4j/log4j-appender-1.2/javaagent/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/log4j/appender/v1_2/LogEventMapper.java b/instrumentation/log4j/log4j-appender-1.2/javaagent/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/log4j/appender/v1_2/LogEventMapper.java
index b2c3b6dea3..1f6966503f 100644
--- a/instrumentation/log4j/log4j-appender-1.2/javaagent/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/log4j/appender/v1_2/LogEventMapper.java
+++ b/instrumentation/log4j/log4j-appender-1.2/javaagent/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/log4j/appender/v1_2/LogEventMapper.java
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import io.opentelemetry.api.GlobalOpenTelemetry;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.common.AttributeKey;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.common.Attributes;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.common.AttributesBuilder;
+import io.opentelemetry.api.incubator.logs.ExtendedLogRecordBuilder;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.logs.LogRecordBuilder;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.logs.Severity;
 import io.opentelemetry.context.Context;
@@ -101,13 +102,15 @@ public final class LogEventMapper {
 
     // throwable
     if (throwable != null) {
-      // TODO (trask) extract method for recording exception into
-      // io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-api
-      attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_TYPE, throwable.getClass().getName());
-      attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_MESSAGE, throwable.getMessage());
-      StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
-      throwable.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(writer));
-      attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_STACKTRACE, writer.toString());
+      if (builder instanceof ExtendedLogRecordBuilder) {
+        ((ExtendedLogRecordBuilder) builder).setException(throwable);
+      } else {
+        attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_TYPE, throwable.getClass().getName());
+        attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_MESSAGE, throwable.getMessage());
+        StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
+        throwable.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(writer));
+        attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_STACKTRACE, writer.toString());
+      }
     }
 
     captureMdcAttributes(attributes);
diff --git a/instrumentation/log4j/log4j-appender-2.17/library/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/log4j/appender/v2_17/internal/LogEventMapper.java b/instrumentation/log4j/log4j-appender-2.17/library/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/log4j/appender/v2_17/internal/LogEventMapper.java
index a167f5ebbb..36ec63fcd1 100644
--- a/instrumentation/log4j/log4j-appender-2.17/library/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/log4j/appender/v2_17/internal/LogEventMapper.java
+++ b/instrumentation/log4j/log4j-appender-2.17/library/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/log4j/appender/v2_17/internal/LogEventMapper.java
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ package io.opentelemetry.instrumentation.log4j.appender.v2_17.internal;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.common.AttributeKey;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.common.Attributes;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.common.AttributesBuilder;
+import io.opentelemetry.api.incubator.logs.ExtendedLogRecordBuilder;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.logs.LogRecordBuilder;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.logs.Severity;
 import io.opentelemetry.context.Context;
@@ -117,7 +118,7 @@ public final class LogEventMapper<T> {
     }
 
     if (throwable != null) {
-      setThrowable(attributes, throwable);
+      setThrowable(builder, attributes, throwable);
     }
 
     captureContextDataAttributes(attributes, contextData);
@@ -233,14 +234,17 @@ public final class LogEventMapper<T> {
         key, k -> AttributeKey.stringKey("log4j.map_message." + k));
   }
 
-  private static void setThrowable(AttributesBuilder attributes, Throwable throwable) {
-    // TODO (trask) extract method for recording exception into
-    // io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-api
-    attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_TYPE, throwable.getClass().getName());
-    attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_MESSAGE, throwable.getMessage());
-    StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
-    throwable.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(writer));
-    attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_STACKTRACE, writer.toString());
+  private static void setThrowable(
+      LogRecordBuilder builder, AttributesBuilder attributes, Throwable throwable) {
+    if (builder instanceof ExtendedLogRecordBuilder) {
+      ((ExtendedLogRecordBuilder) builder).setException(throwable);
+    } else {
+      attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_TYPE, throwable.getClass().getName());
+      attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_MESSAGE, throwable.getMessage());
+      StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
+      throwable.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(writer));
+      attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_STACKTRACE, writer.toString());
+    }
   }
 
   private static Severity levelToSeverity(Level level) {
diff --git a/instrumentation/logback/logback-appender-1.0/library/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/logback/appender/v1_0/internal/LoggingEventMapper.java b/instrumentation/logback/logback-appender-1.0/library/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/logback/appender/v1_0/internal/LoggingEventMapper.java
index 20f92ec2cc..0819c73a93 100644
--- a/instrumentation/logback/logback-appender-1.0/library/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/logback/appender/v1_0/internal/LoggingEventMapper.java
+++ b/instrumentation/logback/logback-appender-1.0/library/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/logback/appender/v1_0/internal/LoggingEventMapper.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import com.google.errorprone.annotations.CanIgnoreReturnValue;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.common.AttributeKey;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.common.Attributes;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.common.AttributesBuilder;
+import io.opentelemetry.api.incubator.logs.ExtendedLogRecordBuilder;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.logs.LogRecordBuilder;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.logs.LoggerProvider;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.logs.Severity;
@@ -147,7 +148,7 @@ public final class LoggingEventMapper {
       throwable = ((ThrowableProxy) throwableProxy).getThrowable();
     }
     if (throwable != null) {
-      setThrowable(attributes, throwable);
+      setThrowable(builder, attributes, throwable);
     }
 
     captureMdcAttributes(attributes, loggingEvent.getMDCPropertyMap());
@@ -269,14 +270,17 @@ public final class LoggingEventMapper {
     return mdcAttributeKeys.computeIfAbsent(key, AttributeKey::stringKey);
   }
 
-  private static void setThrowable(AttributesBuilder attributes, Throwable throwable) {
-    // TODO (trask) extract method for recording exception into
-    // io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-api
-    attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_TYPE, throwable.getClass().getName());
-    attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_MESSAGE, throwable.getMessage());
-    StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
-    throwable.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(writer));
-    attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_STACKTRACE, writer.toString());
+  private static void setThrowable(
+      LogRecordBuilder builder, AttributesBuilder attributes, Throwable throwable) {
+    if (builder instanceof ExtendedLogRecordBuilder) {
+      ((ExtendedLogRecordBuilder) builder).setException(throwable);
+    } else {
+      attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_TYPE, throwable.getClass().getName());
+      attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_MESSAGE, throwable.getMessage());
+      StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
+      throwable.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(writer));
+      attributes.put(ExceptionAttributes.EXCEPTION_STACKTRACE, writer.toString());
+    }
   }
 
   private static Severity levelToSeverity(Level level) {