Grafana.ini changes not reflecting in Grafana server

I’ve made changes to the grafana.ini file to configure smtp and configure https and make it mandatory, but when I restart grafana-server it doesn’t look like the settings took. Validated that the path is correct, nothing sticks out in the logs, anything else I can look at?

You can go to:

http://{server-address}/admin/settings
to see what settings are enabled on the instance to ensure that the settings are actually set.