# Filebeat windows service is not starting

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-windows-service-is-not-starting/157776>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [November 21, 2018, 8:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-windows-service-is-not-starting/157776 "2018-11-21T20:41:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-windows-service-is-not-starting/157776/2 "2018-11-22T13:56:28Z")

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Hello @kommineni24,

Windows 2008 is not officially supported in our [matrix](https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix), meaning we do not do any tests on it.

But I would expect it to work at least the binary.

[I think this post is pretty similar to your situation and it contains a workaround.](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-filebeat-on-windows/81946)

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