diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 67677a00e..216cdf7e0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 ### Various fixes & improvements
 
+- Transaction sample rate is now configurable through the config file ([#1517](https://github.com/getsentry/symbolicator/pull/1517)).
 - In native symbolication, trying to download a source file from a
   sourcelink now creates a candidate ([#1507](https://github.com/getsentry/symbolicator/pull/1510)).
 
diff --git a/crates/symbolicator-service/src/config.rs b/crates/symbolicator-service/src/config.rs
index d7b6d6bf4..eb6b72028 100644
--- a/crates/symbolicator-service/src/config.rs
+++ b/crates/symbolicator-service/src/config.rs
@@ -559,6 +559,15 @@ impl Default for Config {
             max_concurrent_requests: Some(200),
             shared_cache: None,
             _crash_db: None,
+            // Symbolicator receives at peak:
+            // - ~3_000 `symbolicate_js`,
+            // - ~800 `symbolicater`, and
+            // - ~40 `minidump_stackwalk` requests per second.
+            //
+            // round that up to ~4_000 total requests per second, with a 5% sample rate,
+            // we end up with ~200 sampled transactions per second, or ~12_000 per minute.
+            // We only do this for the "real" transactions and not the http frontend that
+            // just spawns these computations.
             transaction_sample_rate: 0.05,
         }
     }
diff --git a/crates/symbolicator/src/cli.rs b/crates/symbolicator/src/cli.rs
index f0a17ed14..fd4555194 100644
--- a/crates/symbolicator/src/cli.rs
+++ b/crates/symbolicator/src/cli.rs
@@ -91,17 +91,6 @@ pub fn execute() -> Result<()> {
             if Some(true) == ctx.sampled() {
                 1.0
             } else if ctx.operation() != "http.server" {
-                // TODO: Think about what to do with this comment now:
-                // Symbolicator receives at peak:
-                // - ~3_000 `symbolicate_js`,
-                // - ~800 `symbolicater`, and
-                // - ~40 `minidump_stackwalk` requests per second.
-                //
-                // round that up to ~4_000 total requests per second, with a 5% sample rate,
-                // we end up with ~200 sampled transactions per second, or ~12_000 per minute.
-                // We only do this for the "real" transactions and not the http frontend that
-                // just spawns these computations.
-
                 config.transaction_sample_rate
             } else {
                 0.0