ElasticSearch crashes, requires Java reinstall

Twice now my production system has gone down requiring that Java is reinstalled before it will work again.

elastic search 1.7.2
java version 8u66

i do not know where to begin to troubleshoot

thanks

  • Kurt

Have you looked at your logs?

[2016-05-26 10:42:47] [info] [ 1564] Starting service...
[2016-05-26 10:42:47] [error] [ 1564] Failed creating java C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_66\bin\server\jvm.dll
[2016-05-26 10:42:47] [error] [ 1564] The system cannot find the path specified.
[2016-05-26 10:42:47] [error] [ 1564] ServiceStart returned 1