diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index 6bfbb0c8..dfa52c22 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ async function run() {
   const gitOrigin = exec('git remote get-url origin')
   const repository = tokenizeRepository(gitOrigin)
 
-  const { metricReader } = initializeOpenTelemetry({
+  const metricReader = initializeOpenTelemetry({
     [ResourceAttributes.EMITTER_NAME]: packageJsonInfo.name,
     [ResourceAttributes.EMITTER_VERSION]: packageJsonInfo.version,
     [ResourceAttributes.PROJECT_ID]: config.projectId,
diff --git a/src/main/core/initialize-open-telemetry.ts b/src/main/core/initialize-open-telemetry.ts
index 8c560fec..2e66344e 100644
--- a/src/main/core/initialize-open-telemetry.ts
+++ b/src/main/core/initialize-open-telemetry.ts
@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@
  * This source code is licensed under the Apache-2.0 license found in the
  * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
  */
+import opentelemetry from '@opentelemetry/api'
 import { Resource } from '@opentelemetry/resources'
 import { MeterProvider } from '@opentelemetry/sdk-metrics'
+import { SemanticResourceAttributes } from '@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions'
 
 import { ManualMetricReader } from './manual-metric-reader.js'
 import type * as ResourceAttributes from './resource-attributes.js'
@@ -25,26 +27,25 @@ interface InitializeOpenTelemetryConfig {
  * Initializes the OpenTelemetry tooling based on the provided config.
  *
  * @param config - The configuration options needed to initialize OpenTelemetry.
- * @returns An object containing a metric reader and a meter provider.
+ * @returns A metric reader that will contain all collected data.
  */
 function initializeOpenTelemetry(config: InitializeOpenTelemetryConfig) {
-  const resource = Resource.default().merge(new Resource({ ...config }))
-
+  const resource = Resource.default().merge(
+    new Resource({
+      // By default, remove the service name attribute, since it is unused
+      [SemanticResourceAttributes.SERVICE_NAME]: undefined,
+      ...config
+    })
+  )
   const metricReader = new ManualMetricReader()
-
   const meterProvider = new MeterProvider({ resource })
 
   meterProvider.addMetricReader(metricReader)
 
-  // TODO: can we get back to only using the global object for this? Or do we still want to have
-  // direct access to it via return values from this function?
   // Set this MeterProvider to be global to the app being instrumented.
-  // otel.metrics.setGlobalMeterProvider(myServiceMeterProvider)
+  opentelemetry.metrics.setGlobalMeterProvider(meterProvider)
 
-  return {
-    metricReader,
-    meterProvider
-  }
+  return metricReader
 }
 
 export { initializeOpenTelemetry }