# Auditbeat windows service consistently fails

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-windows-service-consistently-fails/196369>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** auditbeat\
**Created:** [August 22, 2019, 4:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-windows-service-consistently-fails/196369 "2019-08-22T16:45:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![doug.cain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@doug.cain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/doug.cain)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 4:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-windows-service-consistently-fails/196369/1 "2019-08-22T16:45:41Z")

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Hi,

I've been using audit beats on my centos servers without issue so far but getting the service to run on windows is eluding me. I can run audit beat in a console with the -e flag and it runs fine.

If I use the "install-service-auditbeat.ps1" file, the service is installed as expected but when I start it it always gives an error: "Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion."

The windows event log doesn't give anything away and I can't find any logs that would help.

I am using audit beat 7.3 (same happened with 7.2), any idea how to debug or hints how to get the service running would be much appreciated

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 4:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-windows-service-consistently-fails/196369/2 "2019-09-12T16:45:43Z")

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