fix(sampling): fix agent rate key name and rate limiter fractional token loss

Author: bantonsson

datadog-opentelemetry/src/sampling/agent_service_sampler.rs

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ use super::rate_sampler::RateSampler;
 #[derive(Debug, serde::Deserialize)]
 pub(crate) struct AgentRates<'a> {
     #[serde(borrow)]
-    pub rates_by_service: Option<HashMap<&'a str, f64>>,
+    pub rate_by_service: Option<HashMap<&'a str, f64>>,
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug, Default, Clone)]

datadog-opentelemetry/src/sampling/datadog_sampler.rs

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ impl DatadogSampler {
             let Ok(new_rates) = serde_json::de::from_str::<AgentRates>(s) else {
                 return;
             };
-            let Some(new_rates) = new_rates.rates_by_service else {
+            let Some(new_rates) = new_rates.rate_by_service else {
                 return;
             };
             service_samplers.update_rates(new_rates.into_iter().map(|(k, v)| (k.to_string(), v)));
@@ -778,6 +778,34 @@ mod tests {
         );
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn test_on_agent_response_deserializes_rate_by_service() {
+        let sampler = DatadogSampler::new(vec![], 100);
+        let handler = sampler.on_agent_response();
+
+        handler(
+            r#"{ "rate_by_service": { "service:test,env:staging": 1.0, "service:test,env:prod": 0.3 } }"#,
+        );
+
+        assert_eq!(sampler.service_samplers.len(), 2);
+        assert_eq!(
+            sampler
+                .service_samplers
+                .get("service:test,env:staging")
+                .unwrap()
+                .sample_rate(),
+            1.0
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            sampler
+                .service_samplers
+                .get("service:test,env:prod")
+                .unwrap()
+                .sample_rate(),
+            0.3
+        );
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn test_update_service_rates() {
         let sampler = DatadogSampler::new(vec![], 100);

datadog-opentelemetry/src/sampling/rate_limiter.rs

@@ -172,10 +172,12 @@ impl RateLimiter {
             if state.tokens > state.max_tokens {
                 state.tokens = state.max_tokens;
             }
+            // Only advance last_update by the time consumed by whole tokens, preserving
+            // fractional progress toward the next token.
+            let consumed_ns = (tokens_to_add as f64 / self.rate_limit as f64
+                * state.time_window_ns as f64) as u64;
+            state.last_update += std::time::Duration::from_nanos(consumed_ns);
         }
-        // Always update last_update, even if no tokens were added (e.g., very short elapsed time
-        // yielding tokens_to_add = 0)
-        state.last_update = timestamp;
     }
 
     /// Calculate the current window rate
@@ -243,6 +245,32 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(limiter.effective_rate(), 0.0);
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn test_rate_limiter_accumulates_fractional_tokens() {
+        // With rate=2/s each token takes 500ms. Sleeping 300ms twice (600ms total) must
+        // yield at least one token. Before the fix, each sub-token call reset last_update
+        // to the call time, so the second 300ms window also computed only 0.6 tokens and
+        // the limiter starved indefinitely. Margins: the first assert!(!..) has 200ms of
+        // headroom below 500ms; the final assert!(..) has 100ms of headroom above 500ms.
+        let limiter = RateLimiter::new(2, None);
+
+        // Drain all initial tokens.
+        for _ in 0..2 {
+            assert!(limiter.is_allowed());
+        }
+        assert!(!limiter.is_allowed());
+
+        // First sleep: 300ms → 0.6 tokens, not enough to allow.
+        thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(300));
+        assert!(!limiter.is_allowed());
+
+        // Second sleep: another 300ms. Total elapsed since drain ≈ 600ms → 1.2 tokens.
+        // The fix preserves fractional progress so this succeeds; the old code reset
+        // last_update on the first call and only saw another 0.6 tokens here.
+        thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(300));
+        assert!(limiter.is_allowed());
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn test_rate_limiter_limit_rate() {
         let limiter = RateLimiter::new(5, None); // 5 per second