name : record-lifecycle-action-heartbeat.rst **To record a lifecycle action heartbeat** This example records a lifecycle action heartbeat to keep the instance in a pending state. :: aws autoscaling record-lifecycle-action-heartbeat \ --lifecycle-hook-name my-launch-hook \ --auto-scaling-group-name my-asg \ --lifecycle-action-token bcd2f1b8-9a78-44d3-8a7a-4dd07d7cf635 This command produces no output. For more information, see `Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling lifecycle hooks <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/lifecycle-hooks.html>`__ in the *Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide*.