diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 0c5684b83..8d0eeb25f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1325,7 +1325,10 @@ version = "14.3.1"
 dependencies = [
  "build_common",
  "data-pipeline",
+ "datadog-trace-utils",
  "ddcommon-ffi",
+ "httpmock",
+ "rmp-serde",
  "tinybytes",
 ]
 
diff --git a/data-pipeline-ffi/Cargo.toml b/data-pipeline-ffi/Cargo.toml
index f3fb0bc63..1b90e71e4 100644
--- a/data-pipeline-ffi/Cargo.toml
+++ b/data-pipeline-ffi/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ cbindgen = ["build_common/cbindgen", "ddcommon-ffi/cbindgen"]
 [build-dependencies]
 build_common = { path = "../build-common" }
 
+[dev-dependencies]
+httpmock = "0.7.0"
+rmp-serde = "1.1.1"
+datadog-trace-utils = { path = "../trace-utils" }
+
 [dependencies]
 data-pipeline = { path = "../data-pipeline" }
 ddcommon-ffi = { path = "../ddcommon-ffi", default-features = false }
diff --git a/data-pipeline-ffi/src/trace_exporter.rs b/data-pipeline-ffi/src/trace_exporter.rs
index 357450dd9..1a8497bd2 100644
--- a/data-pipeline-ffi/src/trace_exporter.rs
+++ b/data-pipeline-ffi/src/trace_exporter.rs
@@ -318,6 +318,9 @@ mod tests {
     use super::*;
     use crate::error::ddog_trace_exporter_error_free;
     use crate::trace_exporter::AgentResponse;
+    use datadog_trace_utils::span_v04::Span;
+    use httpmock::prelude::*;
+    use httpmock::MockServer;
     use std::{borrow::Borrow, mem::MaybeUninit};
 
     #[test]
@@ -608,4 +611,121 @@ mod tests {
             assert_eq!(error.unwrap().code, ErrorCode::InvalidInput);
         }
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    // Ignore because it seems, at least in the version we're currently using, miri can't emulate
+    // libc::socket function.
+    #[cfg_attr(miri, ignore)]
+    fn exporter_send_check_rate_test() {
+        unsafe {
+            let server = MockServer::start();
+
+            let _mock = server.mock(|when, then| {
+                when.method(POST)
+                    .header("Content-type", "application/msgpack")
+                    .path("/v0.4/traces");
+                then.status(200).body(
+                    r#"{
+                    "rate_by_service": {
+                        "service:foo,env:staging": 1.0,
+                        "service:,env:": 0.8 
+                    }
+                }"#,
+                );
+            });
+
+            let cfg = TraceExporterConfig {
+                url: Some(server.url("/")),
+                tracer_version: Some("0.1".to_string()),
+                language: Some("lang".to_string()),
+                language_version: Some("0.1".to_string()),
+                language_interpreter: Some("interpreter".to_string()),
+                hostname: Some("hostname".to_string()),
+                env: Some("env-test".to_string()),
+                version: Some("1.0".to_string()),
+                service: Some("test-service".to_string()),
+                input_format: TraceExporterInputFormat::V04,
+                output_format: TraceExporterOutputFormat::V04,
+                compute_stats: false,
+            };
+
+            let mut ptr: MaybeUninit<Box<TraceExporter>> = MaybeUninit::uninit();
+            let mut ret =
+                ddog_trace_exporter_new(NonNull::new_unchecked(&mut ptr).cast(), Some(&cfg));
+
+            let exporter = ptr.assume_init();
+
+            assert_eq!(ret, None);
+
+            let data = rmp_serde::to_vec_named::<Vec<Vec<Span>>>(&vec![vec![]]).unwrap();
+            let traces = ByteSlice::new(&data);
+            let mut response = AgentResponse { rate: 0.0 };
+
+            ret = ddog_trace_exporter_send(Some(exporter.as_ref()), traces, 0, Some(&mut response));
+            assert_eq!(ret, None);
+            assert_eq!(response.rate, 0.8);
+
+            ddog_trace_exporter_free(exporter);
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    // Ignore because it seems, at least in the version we're currently using, miri can't emulate
+    // libc::socket function.
+    #[cfg_attr(miri, ignore)]
+    fn exporter_send_empty_array_test() {
+        // Test added due to ensure the exporter is able to send empty arrays because some tracers
+        // (.NET) ping the agent with the aforementioned data type.
+        unsafe {
+            let server = MockServer::start();
+
+            let mock_traces = server.mock(|when, then| {
+                when.method(POST)
+                    .header("Content-type", "application/msgpack")
+                    .path("/v0.4/traces");
+                then.status(200).body(
+                    r#"{
+                    "rate_by_service": {
+                        "service:foo,env:staging": 1.0,
+                        "service:,env:": 0.8 
+                    }
+                }"#,
+                );
+            });
+
+            let cfg = TraceExporterConfig {
+                url: Some(server.url("/")),
+                tracer_version: Some("0.1".to_string()),
+                language: Some("lang".to_string()),
+                language_version: Some("0.1".to_string()),
+                language_interpreter: Some("interpreter".to_string()),
+                hostname: Some("hostname".to_string()),
+                env: Some("env-test".to_string()),
+                version: Some("1.0".to_string()),
+                service: Some("test-service".to_string()),
+                input_format: TraceExporterInputFormat::V04,
+                output_format: TraceExporterOutputFormat::V04,
+                compute_stats: false,
+            };
+
+            let mut ptr: MaybeUninit<Box<TraceExporter>> = MaybeUninit::uninit();
+            let mut ret =
+                ddog_trace_exporter_new(NonNull::new_unchecked(&mut ptr).cast(), Some(&cfg));
+
+            let exporter = ptr.assume_init();
+
+            assert_eq!(ret, None);
+
+            let data = vec![0x90];
+            let traces = ByteSlice::new(&data);
+            let mut response = AgentResponse { rate: 0.0 };
+
+            ret = ddog_trace_exporter_send(Some(exporter.as_ref()), traces, 0, Some(&mut response));
+            mock_traces.assert();
+            assert_eq!(ret, None);
+            assert_eq!(response.rate, 0.8);
+
+            ddog_trace_exporter_free(exporter);
+        }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/data-pipeline/src/trace_exporter/mod.rs b/data-pipeline/src/trace_exporter/mod.rs
index c4edc1a37..9e3cf83d2 100644
--- a/data-pipeline/src/trace_exporter/mod.rs
+++ b/data-pipeline/src/trace_exporter/mod.rs
@@ -590,13 +590,6 @@ impl TraceExporter {
             }
         };
 
-        if traces.is_empty() {
-            error!("No traces deserialized from the request body.");
-            return Err(TraceExporterError::Io(std::io::Error::from(
-                std::io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput,
-            )));
-        }
-
         let num_traces = traces.len();
 
         self.emit_metric(
@@ -1531,6 +1524,41 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(result, AgentResponse::from(0.8));
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    #[cfg_attr(miri, ignore)]
+    fn agent_response_empty_array() {
+        let server = MockServer::start();
+        let _agent = server.mock(|_, then| {
+            then.status(200)
+                .header("content-type", "application/json")
+                .body(
+                    r#"{
+                    "rate_by_service": {
+                        "service:foo,env:staging": 1.0,
+                        "service:,env:": 0.8 
+                    }
+                }"#,
+                );
+        });
+
+        let exporter = TraceExporterBuilder::default()
+            .set_url(&server.url("/"))
+            .set_service("foo")
+            .set_env("foo-env")
+            .set_tracer_version("v0.1")
+            .set_language("nodejs")
+            .set_language_version("1.0")
+            .set_language_interpreter("v8")
+            .build()
+            .unwrap();
+
+        let traces = vec![0x90];
+        let bytes = tinybytes::Bytes::from(traces);
+        let result = exporter.send(bytes, 1).unwrap();
+
+        assert_eq!(result, AgentResponse::from(0.8));
+    }
+
     #[test]
     #[cfg_attr(miri, ignore)]
     fn builder_error() {