diff --git a/docs/examples/auto-instrumentation/README.rst b/docs/examples/auto-instrumentation/README.rst
index a37d8ea4dc..0c321eefe9 100644
--- a/docs/examples/auto-instrumentation/README.rst
+++ b/docs/examples/auto-instrumentation/README.rst
@@ -136,7 +136,14 @@ similar to the following example:
             "http.flavor": "1.1"
         },
         "events": [],
-        "links": []
+        "links": [],
+        "resource": {
+            "telemetry.sdk.language": "python",
+            "telemetry.sdk.name": "opentelemetry",
+            "telemetry.sdk.version": "0.16b1"
+        },
+        "service_name": null
+    
     }
 
 Execute an automatically instrumented server
@@ -191,7 +198,14 @@ similar to the following example:
             "http.status_code": 200
         },
         "events": [],
-        "links": []
+        "links": [],
+        "resource": {
+        "telemetry.sdk.language": "python",
+        "telemetry.sdk.name": "opentelemetry",
+        "telemetry.sdk.version": "0.16b1",
+        "service.name": ""
+    },
+    "service_name": ""
     }
 
 You can see that both outputs are the same because automatic instrumentation does
diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/setup.cfg b/opentelemetry-sdk/setup.cfg
index 6ef8fca662..4fc5eae848 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/setup.cfg
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/setup.cfg
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ opentelemetry_tracer_provider =
 opentelemetry_propagator =
     b3 = opentelemetry.sdk.trace.propagation.b3_format:B3Format
 opentelemetry_exporter =
-    console_span = opentelemetry.sdk.trace:ConsoleSpanExporter
+    console_span = opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export:ConsoleSpanExporter
     console_metrics = opentelemetry.sdk.metrics:ConsoleMetricsExporter
 
 [options.extras_require]
diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/trace/export/__init__.py b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/trace/export/__init__.py
index 83bd9b97c3..beb32cdeda 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/trace/export/__init__.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/trace/export/__init__.py
@@ -13,12 +13,14 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 import collections
+import json
 import logging
 import os
 import sys
 import threading
 import typing
 from enum import Enum
+from typing import Optional
 
 from opentelemetry.configuration import Configuration
 from opentelemetry.context import Context, attach, detach, set_value
@@ -370,7 +372,7 @@ class ConsoleSpanExporter(SpanExporter):
 
     def __init__(
         self,
-        service_name=None,
+        service_name: Optional[str] = None,
         out: typing.IO = sys.stdout,
         formatter: typing.Callable[[Span], str] = lambda span: span.to_json()
         + os.linesep,
@@ -381,6 +383,8 @@ def __init__(
 
     def export(self, spans: typing.Sequence[Span]) -> SpanExportResult:
         for span in spans:
-            self.out.write(self.formatter(span))
+            span_json = json.loads(self.formatter(span))
+            span_json.update({"service_name": self.service_name})
+            self.out.write(json.dumps(span_json, indent=4))
         self.out.flush()
         return SpanExportResult.SUCCESS
diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/tests/trace/export/test_export.py b/opentelemetry-sdk/tests/trace/export/test_export.py
index 4ad23dd863..cf48d19aa1 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/tests/trace/export/test_export.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/tests/trace/export/test_export.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-import os
+import json
 import threading
 import time
 import unittest
@@ -478,26 +478,33 @@ class TestConsoleSpanExporter(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_export(self):  # pylint: disable=no-self-use
         """Check that the console exporter prints spans."""
         exporter = export.ConsoleSpanExporter()
-
         # Mocking stdout interferes with debugging and test reporting, mock on
         # the exporter instance instead.
         span = trace._Span("span name", trace_api.INVALID_SPAN_CONTEXT)
         with mock.patch.object(exporter, "out") as mock_stdout:
             exporter.export([span])
-        mock_stdout.write.assert_called_once_with(span.to_json() + os.linesep)
+        span_json = json.loads(span.to_json())
+        span_json.update({"service_name": None})
+
+        mock_stdout.write.assert_called_once_with(
+            json.dumps(span_json, indent=4)
+        )
+
         self.assertEqual(mock_stdout.write.call_count, 1)
         self.assertEqual(mock_stdout.flush.call_count, 1)
 
     def test_export_custom(self):  # pylint: disable=no-self-use
         """Check that console exporter uses custom io, formatter."""
-        mock_span_str = mock.Mock(str)
 
         def formatter(span):  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
-            return mock_span_str
+            return json.dumps({"service_name": None}, indent=4)
 
         mock_stdout = mock.Mock()
         exporter = export.ConsoleSpanExporter(
             out=mock_stdout, formatter=formatter
         )
-        exporter.export([trace._Span("span name", mock.Mock())])
-        mock_stdout.write.assert_called_once_with(mock_span_str)
+        span = trace._Span("span name", mock.Mock())
+        exporter.export([span])
+        mock_stdout.write.assert_called_once_with(
+            json.dumps({"service_name": None}, indent=4)
+        )