Difference between admin.register and admin.site.register

I'm writing an API in Django and I show its metrics in a view on Django Admin. My Django project has more than one app, and in one of them is the view that feeds information for the metrics template.

I used:

from django.contrib import admin
...
admin.register(ApiRequestLog, ApiRequestLogAdmin)

where ApiRequestLog is a model that I use to log every request user, time, etc.

But the endpoint didn't show in uv run manage.py show_urls, nor it was available to be linked in other templates: my index.html had a button referencing to it and crashed by not finding the reverse URL.

Then I changed to admin.site.register(ApiRequestLog, ApiRequestLogAdmin) and it worked. As searched online, admin.register is an alias for admin.site.register. Should I keep using admin.site.register or the shorter version?

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