diff --git a/config.go b/config.go
index 331e05b18..63d24803e 100644
--- a/config.go
+++ b/config.go
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ type Config struct {
 	KafkaSpanBufferFrequency     string    `yaml:"kafka_span_buffer_frequency"`
 	KafkaSpanBufferMesages       int       `yaml:"kafka_span_buffer_mesages"`
 	KafkaSpanRequireAcks         string    `yaml:"kafka_span_require_acks"`
-	KafkaSpanSampleRatePercent   int       `yaml:"kafka_span_sample_rate_percent"`
+	KafkaSpanSampleRatePercent   float64   `yaml:"kafka_span_sample_rate_percent"`
 	KafkaSpanSampleTag           string    `yaml:"kafka_span_sample_tag"`
 	KafkaSpanSerializationFormat string    `yaml:"kafka_span_serialization_format"`
 	KafkaSpanTopic               string    `yaml:"kafka_span_topic"`
diff --git a/example.yaml b/example.yaml
index c25800ef6..e87c8ac52 100644
--- a/example.yaml
+++ b/example.yaml
@@ -292,10 +292,8 @@ kafka_span_topic: "veneur_spans"
 # of traceID
 kafka_span_sample_tag: ""
 
-# Sample rate in percent (as an integer)
-# This should ideally be a floating point number, but at the time this was
-# written, gojson interpreted whole-number floats in yaml as integers.
-kafka_span_sample_rate_percent: 100
+# Percentage of spans that will be sent to the Kafka sink
+kafka_span_sample_rate_percent: 2.0
 
 kafka_metric_buffer_bytes: 0