A security engineer is tasked with forwarding custom application-security logs from an Amazon EC2 instance to Amazon CloudWatch. The engineer has successfully installed the CloudWatch agent on the EC2 instance and has correctly specified the log file path in the CloudWatch configuration file. Despite these configurations, the logs are not being received by CloudWatch. The engineer has verified that the awslogs service is active and functioning on the EC2 instance. What should be the next step taken by the engineer to ensure that the logs are successfully forwarded to CloudWatch?