# Making configuration changes and restart

**URL:** <https://discuss.prometheus.io/t/making-configuration-changes-and-restart/1422>\
**Category:** General Help/Support\
**Created:** [January 26, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.prometheus.io/t/making-configuration-changes-and-restart/1422 "2023-01-26T16:01:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![sligade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@sligade](https://discuss.prometheus.io/u/sligade)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.prometheus.io/t/making-configuration-changes-and-restart/1422/1 "2023-01-26T16:01:00Z")

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I have alertmanager and prometheus running on aws ec2. Whnever i make a chnage to alertmanager or prometheus yml file, and restart the services, i see my alerts firing count resets. thi sis really annoying as, i have long running alerts (e.g. for 4w ), after restart they all go to pending from firing and i have to wait for long time. Is there a preferred/better way of restarting? I tried reload cli but it is behaving the same.  
Thanks in advance  
-S