diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 876877200..0a2f95433 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 ## Added
 * Added a timeout for sink ingestion to all sinks, which prevents a single slow sink from blocking ingestion on other span sinks indefinitely. Thanks, [aditya](https://github.com/chimeracoder)!
 
+## Changes
+* `kafka_span_sample_rate_percent` now allows floating-point values. `kafka.NewKafkaSpanSink` now takes a floating point sample rate, accordingly. Thanks [chimeracoder](https://github.com/chimeracoder)!
+
+
 ## Bugfixes
 * Added a timeout to the Kafka sink, which prevents the Kafka client from blocking other span sinks. Thanks, [aditya](https://github.com/chimeracoder)!
 
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
 
diff --git a/sinks/kafka/kafka.go b/sinks/kafka/kafka.go
index 98815ac1d..1bfb09824 100644
--- a/sinks/kafka/kafka.go
+++ b/sinks/kafka/kafka.go
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ func (k *KafkaMetricSink) FlushOtherSamples(ctx context.Context, samples []ssf.S
 }
 
 // NewKafkaSpanSink creates a new Kafka Plugin.
-func NewKafkaSpanSink(logger *logrus.Logger, cl *trace.Client, brokers string, topic string, partitioner string, ackRequirement string, retries int, bufferBytes int, bufferMessages int, bufferDuration string, serializationFormat string, sampleTag string, sampleRatePercentage int) (*KafkaSpanSink, error) {
+func NewKafkaSpanSink(logger *logrus.Logger, cl *trace.Client, brokers string, topic string, partitioner string, ackRequirement string, retries int, bufferBytes int, bufferMessages int, bufferDuration string, serializationFormat string, sampleTag string, sampleRatePercentage float64) (*KafkaSpanSink, error) {
 	if logger == nil {
 		logger = &logrus.Logger{Out: ioutil.Discard}
 	}