# Kibana is not starting as a service **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [July 16, 2015, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-is-not-starting-as-a-service/25726 "2015-07-16T13:57:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sanju1323](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@sanju1323](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sanju1323)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-is-not-starting-as-a-service/25726/1 "2015-07-16T13:57:52Z")
Hi, I have an issue regarding kibana service. Kibana service is automatically going to pause state. Don't know what is happening. Here I'm giving the screenshot of the service ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/1/1602d7e098a1d70fdeca4ec3a3026e64779b6131.png) Elasticsearch and logstash are working fine. But kibana is creating a poblem. I have removed the kibana service and have taken the newer version of kibana and installed as a service. But still the problem persists. Please help in starting the service. Regards, Sanjay Reddy ---
**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-is-not-starting-as-a-service/25726/2 "2015-07-16T21:55:48Z")
Hi Sanjay - Elastic does not provide an official Windows service for Kibana at this time, so unfortunately I can't really comment on what might be going wrong with your use case. I do know that some [resources](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29261809/elastic-kibana-install-as-windows-service) in the community exist on how to install Kibana as a service on Windows, but at this time those are best effort in terms of support. ---
**Author:** ![sanju1323](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@sanju1323](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sanju1323)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-is-not-starting-as-a-service/25726/3 "2015-07-18T10:44:48Z")
Thanks for the response @tbragin I ran the kibana.bat file manually and Kibana is working fine. Is there any way how to start the kibana.bat file automatically? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-is-not-starting-as-a-service/25726/4 "2017-07-06T14:16:17Z")