diff --git a/changelog.d/24188_blackhole_sink_rate_limiting.fix.md b/changelog.d/24188_blackhole_sink_rate_limiting.fix.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9761dc54bd7a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/24188_blackhole_sink_rate_limiting.fix.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+The `blackhole` sink's periodic statistics messages (controlled by `print_interval_secs`) are no longer incorrectly suppressed by rate limiting. These informational messages now appear at the user-configured interval as expected.
+
+authors: pront
diff --git a/src/sinks/blackhole/sink.rs b/src/sinks/blackhole/sink.rs
index f400518332e42..8c934101545eb 100644
--- a/src/sinks/blackhole/sink.rs
+++ b/src/sinks/blackhole/sink.rs
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ impl StreamSink<EventArray> for BlackholeSink {
                             info!(
                                 events = total_events.load(Ordering::Relaxed),
                                 raw_bytes_collected = total_raw_bytes.load(Ordering::Relaxed),
+                                internal_log_rate_limit = false,
                                 "Collected events."
                             );
                         },
@@ -75,6 +76,7 @@ impl StreamSink<EventArray> for BlackholeSink {
                 info!(
                     events = total_events.load(Ordering::Relaxed),
                     raw_bytes_collected = total_raw_bytes.load(Ordering::Relaxed),
+                    internal_log_rate_limit = false,
                     "Collected events."
                 );
             });