AWS Cloudwatch Agent not picking up changes

Solution 1:

It's possible your agent state file is corrupted because you kept making changes to the configuration. There are two ways to fix this:

Option 1: Use a new name for your configuration block header.
- That is, change [website.access.log] to [something.else].

Option 2: Delete the agent state file after stopping the service.

sudo service awslogs stop
sudo rm /var/lib/awslogs/agent-state
sudo service awslogs start

Please note that Option 2 may initially cause duplicate logs to be pushed to CloudWatch as a new state file is created.