title: awslogs agent can't keep up
body: <p>I'm running the <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/AgentReference.html" rel="nofollow">awslogs agent</a> on a server, and when I look in CloudWatch logs in the AWS console, the logs are about 60 minutes behind. Our server produces about 650MB of data per hour, and it appears that the agent is not able to keep up.</p>
  
  <p>Here is our abbreviated config file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[application.log]
  datetime_format = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
  time_zone = UTC
  file = var/output/logs/application.json.log*
  log_stream_name = {hostname}
  initial_position = start_of_file
  log_group_name = ApplicationLog
  
  [service_log]
  datetime_format = %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S
  time_zone = UTC
  file = var/output/logs/service.json.log*
  log_stream_name = {hostname}
  initial_position = start_of_file
  log_group_name = ServiceLog
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a common way to speed of the awslogs agent?</p>