# Error 1053: “The service did not respond in a timely fashion” when attempting to start winlogbeat service

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-1053-the-service-did-not-respond-in-a-timely-fashion-when-attempting-to-start-winlogbeat-service/176032
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** winlogbeat
**Created:** [April 9, 2019, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-1053-the-service-did-not-respond-in-a-timely-fashion-when-attempting-to-start-winlogbeat-service/176032 "2019-04-09T13:20:47Z")
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### Author: ![aaa111aaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@aaa111aaa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aaa111aaa)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-1053-the-service-did-not-respond-in-a-timely-fashion-when-attempting-to-start-winlogbeat-service/176032/1 "2019-04-09T13:20:47Z")

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Hello all,

When attempting to start the winlogbeat service in Windows I receive the following:

Error 1053: "The service did not respond in a timely fashion" when attempting to start, stop or pause a service."

I've successfully created the service using the Powershell script included in the .zip file but receive this error each time. I'm using the default yaml config file at the moment, I just want to ensure I can initiate the service properly before tailoring the config to talk to our ELK stack.

Any suggestions on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated.

PS C:\Program Files\Winlogbeat \> .\winlogbeat.exe -e -configtest

gives this

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/3/431b9371c5f85f3f7c772679066c8b0d384bad03.png)

Winlogbeat.yml looks like that

winlogbeat.event\_logs:

- name: Application
- name: Security
- name: System

tags: ["winsrv"]

output.elasticsearch:  
hosts: ["10.11.140.1:5044"]

logging.level: info  
logging.to\_files: true  
logging.files:  
path: C:/Program Files/Winlogbeat/logs  
name: winlogbeat  
keepfiles: 7

xpack.monitoring:  
enabled: true  
elasticsearch:  
hosts: ["[http://10.11.140.1:9200](http://10.11.140.1:9200)"]

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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: [May 7, 2019, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-1053-the-service-did-not-respond-in-a-timely-fashion-when-attempting-to-start-winlogbeat-service/176032/2 "2019-05-07T13:20:55Z")

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