diff --git a/processor/logratelimitprocessor/README.md b/processor/logratelimitprocessor/README.md
index c4c8fcb30333..b3c41f1670f5 100644
--- a/processor/logratelimitprocessor/README.md
+++ b/processor/logratelimitprocessor/README.md
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ are one or many services which are logging too many logs such that it increases
 the log noise/surge from any service/namespace/pod etc. you can use the rate-limit processor, you can give the fields on which you want to limit logs 
 and add config for allowed rate and interval.<br>
 The processor caches the count of logs in the given interval for each combination of given rate_limit_fields and once logs count starts to exceed the count 
-the processor will start dropping the logs till the interval finish in the best effort way. There are no mutex/locks involved, only one atomic counter is used 
-to keep rate-limiter lightweight / easy on resources.
+the processor will start dropping the logs till the interval finish in the best effort way. There are no mutex/locks involved, sync.Map and atomic counter is 
+used to keep rate-limiter lightweight / easy on resources.
 
 ## Configuration
 | Field             | Type     | Default | Description                                                                                                                                                                            |
diff --git a/processor/logratelimitprocessor/rate_limiter.go b/processor/logratelimitprocessor/rate_limiter.go
index fc13e79ea3af..83d0f112f60d 100644
--- a/processor/logratelimitprocessor/rate_limiter.go
+++ b/processor/logratelimitprocessor/rate_limiter.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ package logratelimitprocessor // import "github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry
 
 import (
 	"go.uber.org/zap"
+	"sync"
 	"sync/atomic"
 	"time"
 )
@@ -12,20 +13,18 @@ import (
 // RateLimiter is a fixedWindow algorithm based rate-limiter
 type RateLimiter struct {
 	threshold          uint64
-	windowStartTimeMap map[uint64]time.Time
+	windowStartTimeMap sync.Map
 	windowSize         time.Duration
-	counterMap         map[uint64]*atomic.Uint64
+	counterMap         sync.Map
 	logger             *zap.Logger
 }
 
 // NewRateLimiter create a new rate-limiter initialization
 func NewRateLimiter(threshold uint64, windowSize time.Duration, lggr *zap.Logger) *RateLimiter {
 	return &RateLimiter{
-		threshold:          threshold,
-		windowStartTimeMap: make(map[uint64]time.Time),
-		windowSize:         windowSize,
-		counterMap:         make(map[uint64]*atomic.Uint64),
-		logger:             lggr,
+		threshold:  threshold,
+		windowSize: windowSize,
+		logger:     lggr,
 	}
 }
 
@@ -35,19 +34,18 @@ func NewRateLimiter(threshold uint64, windowSize time.Duration, lggr *zap.Logger
 // is configured in AllowedRate
 func (fw *RateLimiter) IsRequestAllowed(key uint64) bool {
 	now := time.Now()
-	cntr, ok := fw.counterMap[key]
-	if !ok {
-		fw.counterMap[key] = new(atomic.Uint64)
-		cntr = fw.counterMap[key]
-		fw.windowStartTimeMap[key] = now
-	}
+	cntrI, _ := fw.counterMap.LoadOrStore(key, new(atomic.Uint64))
+	cntr := cntrI.(*atomic.Uint64)
+	currWinI, _ := fw.windowStartTimeMap.LoadOrStore(key, now)
+	currWin := currWinI.(time.Time)
+
 	// cases where now.Sub(fw.windowStartTime) is negative or positive should be handled
-	if now.Sub(fw.windowStartTimeMap[key]) > fw.windowSize {
+	if now.Sub(currWin) > fw.windowSize {
 		cntr.Store(0)
 		// updating this without lock considering an assumption that all goroutines which will try to update this
 		// fw.windowStartTime in race-condition(within this if block) will have a very small time-difference (in nanoseconds),
 		// we can tolerate that time difference and accept any of the update from concurrent requests.
-		fw.windowStartTimeMap[key] = now
+		fw.windowStartTimeMap.Store(key, now)
 	}
 	return cntr.Add(1) <= fw.threshold
 }