diff --git a/examples/config.yml b/examples/config.yml
index 9d0745c0..22a18ca3 100644
--- a/examples/config.yml
+++ b/examples/config.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ modules:
     - name: example_timestamped_value
       type: object
       path: '{ .values[?(@.state == "INACTIVE")] }'
-      epochTimestamp: '{ .timestamp }'
+      epochtimestamp: '{ .timestamp }'
       help: Example of a timestamped value scrape in the json
       labels:
         environment: beta # static label
diff --git a/examples/data.json b/examples/data.json
index 2890657a..a76d0fdf 100644
--- a/examples/data.json
+++ b/examples/data.json
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 {
     "counter": 1234,
-    "timestamp": 1657568506,
     "values": [
         {
             "id": "id-A",
@@ -12,6 +11,7 @@
             "id": "id-B",
             "count": 2,
             "some_boolean": true,
+            "timestamp": 1657568506,
             "state": "INACTIVE"
         },
         {
diff --git a/exporter/util.go b/exporter/util.go
index 8374ddce..66915108 100644
--- a/exporter/util.go
+++ b/exporter/util.go
@@ -63,10 +63,12 @@ func SanitizeValue(s string) (float64, error) {
 
 func SanitizeIntValue(s string) (int64, error) {
 	var err error
+	var valueFloat float64
 	var value int64
 	var resultErr string
 
-	if value, err = strconv.ParseInt(s, 10, 64); err == nil {
+	if valueFloat, err = strconv.ParseFloat(s, 64); err == nil {
+		value = int64(math.Round(valueFloat))
 		return value, nil
 	}
 	resultErr = fmt.Sprintf("%s", err)