diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/requests/__init__.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/requests/__init__.py
index 47ed46d175..eb546cb082 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/requests/__init__.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/requests/__init__.py
@@ -125,6 +125,9 @@ def _instrument(
     :code:`requests.session.Session.request` (this includes
     :code:`requests.get`, etc.)."""
 
+    print("!!! init.py _instrument with opt_in_mode:")
+    print("%s", sem_conv_opt_in_mode)
+
     # Since
     # https://github.com/psf/requests/commit/d72d1162142d1bf8b1b5711c664fbbd674f349d1
     # (v0.7.0, Oct 23, 2011), get, post, etc are implemented via request which
@@ -381,9 +384,16 @@ def _instrument(self, **kwargs):
                 ``excluded_urls``: A string containing a comma-delimited
                     list of regexes used to exclude URLs from tracking
         """
+        print("!!! RequestsInstrumentor _instrument with kwargs:")
+        print("%s", kwargs)
+
         semconv_opt_in_mode = _OpenTelemetrySemanticConventionStability._get_opentelemetry_stability_opt_in_mode(
             _OpenTelemetryStabilitySignalType.HTTP,
         )
+
+        print("Then got semconv_opt_in_mode (no hyphen):")
+        print("%s", semconv_opt_in_mode)
+
         schema_url = _get_schema_url(semconv_opt_in_mode)
         tracer_provider = kwargs.get("tracer_provider")
         tracer = get_tracer(
diff --git a/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/_semconv.py b/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/_semconv.py
index a7221ccb99..dd1df59728 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/_semconv.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/_semconv.py
@@ -141,6 +141,16 @@ def _get_opentelemetry_stability_opt_in_mode(
         cls,
         signal_type: _OpenTelemetryStabilitySignalType,
     ) -> _HTTPStabilityMode:
+        print("!!! _semconv.get_otel_stability")
+        print("signal_type: %s", signal_type)
+        print("_OTEL_SEMCONV_STABILITY_SIGNAL_MAPPING: %s", _OpenTelemetrySemanticConventionStability._OTEL_SEMCONV_STABILITY_SIGNAL_MAPPING)
+        print(
+            "retval: %s",
+            _OpenTelemetrySemanticConventionStability._OTEL_SEMCONV_STABILITY_SIGNAL_MAPPING.get(
+                signal_type, _HTTPStabilityMode.DEFAULT
+            )
+        )
+
         return _OpenTelemetrySemanticConventionStability._OTEL_SEMCONV_STABILITY_SIGNAL_MAPPING.get(
             signal_type, _HTTPStabilityMode.DEFAULT
         )
diff --git a/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/instrumentor.py b/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/instrumentor.py
index c612bfeceb..0699729f3c 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/instrumentor.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/instrumentor.py
@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@ def instrument(self, **kwargs):
         ``opentelemetry-instrument`` command does.
         """
 
+        print("!!! Starting BaseInstrumentor.instrument with kwargs:")
+        print("%s", kwargs)
+
         if self._is_instrumented_by_opentelemetry:
             _LOG.warning("Attempting to instrument while already instrumented")
             return None
@@ -111,6 +114,8 @@ def instrument(self, **kwargs):
         # initialize semantic conventions opt-in if needed
         _OpenTelemetrySemanticConventionStability._initialize()
 
+        print("Base instrumentor calling self._instrument with kwargs:")
+        print("%s", kwargs)
         result = self._instrument(  # pylint: disable=assignment-from-no-return
             **kwargs
         )