diff --git a/cmd/heartbeat/heartbeat.go b/cmd/heartbeat/heartbeat.go
index 1b7fb499..4b5192af 100644
--- a/cmd/heartbeat/heartbeat.go
+++ b/cmd/heartbeat/heartbeat.go
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/wakatime/wakatime-cli/pkg/filestats"
 	"github.com/wakatime/wakatime-cli/pkg/filter"
 	"github.com/wakatime/wakatime-cli/pkg/heartbeat"
+	"github.com/wakatime/wakatime-cli/pkg/ini"
 	"github.com/wakatime/wakatime-cli/pkg/language"
 	_ "github.com/wakatime/wakatime-cli/pkg/lexer" // force to load all lexers
 	"github.com/wakatime/wakatime-cli/pkg/log"
@@ -153,6 +154,8 @@ func SendHeartbeats(v *viper.Viper, queueFilepath string) error {
 		}
 	}
 
+	ResetRateLimit(v)
+
 	return nil
 }
 
@@ -197,6 +200,24 @@ func RateLimited(offline paramscmd.Offline) bool {
 	return time.Since(offline.LastSentAt) > offline.RateLimit
 }
 
+// ResetRateLimit updates the internal.heartbeats_last_sent_at timestamp
+func ResetRateLimit(v *viper.Viper) error {
+	w, err := ini.NewWriter(v, ini.InternalFilePath)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to parse config file: %s", err)
+	}
+
+	keyValue := map[string]string{
+		"heartbeats_last_sent_at": time.Now().Format(ini.DateFormat),
+	}
+
+	if err := w.Write("internal", keyValue); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to write to internal config file: %s", err)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
 func buildHeartbeats(params paramscmd.Params) []heartbeat.Heartbeat {
 	heartbeats := []heartbeat.Heartbeat{}
 
diff --git a/cmd/offlinesync/offlinesync.go b/cmd/offlinesync/offlinesync.go
index a5de0ca3..19c0ec6d 100644
--- a/cmd/offlinesync/offlinesync.go
+++ b/cmd/offlinesync/offlinesync.go
@@ -148,5 +148,7 @@ func SyncOfflineActivity(v *viper.Viper, queueFilepath string) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
+	cmdheartbeat.ResetRateLimit(v)
+
 	return nil
 }