# Having Issue Starting Winlogbeat As A Windows Service
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issue-starting-winlogbeat-as-a-windows-service/260574
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** winlogbeat
**Created:** [January 8, 2021, 7:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issue-starting-winlogbeat-as-a-windows-service/260574 "2021-01-08T19:56:31Z")
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### Author:  [@qcjacobo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/qcjacobo)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2021, 7:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issue-starting-winlogbeat-as-a-windows-service/260574/1 "2021-01-08T19:56:31Z")
I am having issues getting winlogbeat to start as a Windows service on my Windows 10 (1909) system. As you can see below, I am not getting any obvious errors when trying to install and start the Windows service. Just that the service will not start.
_PS C:\elk\7.10.1\beats\winlogbeat-7.10.1-windows-x86\_64\> .\install-service-winlogbeat.ps1_
_Status Name DisplayName_
_------ ---- -----------_
_Stopped winlogbeat winlogbeat_
_PS C:\elk\7.10.1\beats\winlogbeat-7.10.1-windows-x86\_64\> Start-Service winlogbeat_
_PS C:\elk\7.10.1\beats\winlogbeat-7.10.1-windows-x86\_64\> Get-Service winlogbeat_
_Status Name DisplayName_
_------ ---- -----------_
_Stopped winlogbeat winlogbeat_
I am able to run winlogbeat from command line successfully and can see winlogbeat logs in kibana.
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### Author:  [@qcjacobo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/qcjacobo)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2021, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issue-starting-winlogbeat-as-a-windows-service/260574/2 "2021-01-08T20:22:18Z")
So i looked at the winlogbeat log file and am seeing this error:
```auto
2021-01-08T12:09:19.639-0800 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:154 Uptime: 232.2918ms
2021-01-08T12:09:19.639-0800 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:131 Stopping metrics logging.
2021-01-08T12:09:19.640-0800 INFO instance/beat.go:452 winlogbeat stopped.
2021-01-08T12:09:19.643-0800 ERROR instance/beat.go:956 Exiting: error connecting to Kibana: fail to load the TLS config: 2 errors: open /certs/lab.crt: The system cannot find the path specified. /certs/lab.crt; open /certs/ca.crt: The system cannot find the path specified. reading
```
So I changed my yaml to the full path of the certificates:
```auto
*# =================================== Kibana ===================================*
*setup.kibana:*
* host: https://lab:5601*
* ssl.enabled: true*
* setup.kibana.ssl.verification_mode: none*
* ssl.certificate_authorities: "C:\elk\7.10.1\beats\winlogbeat-7.10.1-windows-x86_64\config\certs\ca.crt"*
* ssl.certificate: "C:\elk\7.10.1\beats\winlogbeat-7.10.1-windows-x86_64\config\certs\lab.crt"*
* ssl.key: "C:\elk\7.10.1\beats\winlogbeat-7.10.1-windows-x86_64\config\certs\lab.key"*
*# ---------------------------- Elasticsearch Output ----------------------------*
*output.elasticsearch:*
* hosts: "https://lab:9200"*
* username: "elastic" *
* password: "passwordhere"*
* output.elastic.ssl.certificate_authorities: "C:\elk\7.10.1\beats\winlogbeat-7.10.1-windows-x86_64\config\certs\ca.crt"*
* output.elastic.ssl.key: "C:\elk\7.10.1\beats\winlogbeat-7.10.1-windows-x86_64\config\certs\lab.key"*
```
But now I am getting the following error:
```auto
C:\elk\7.10.1\beats\winlogbeat-7.10.1-windows-x86_64>winlogbeat.exe test config -c .\winlogbeat.yml -e
Exiting: error loading config file: yaml: line 46: found unknown escape character
```
What path should I be specifying?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2021, 10:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issue-starting-winlogbeat-as-a-windows-service/260574/3 "2021-02-05T22:22:22Z")
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