# Kibana set up windows service (6.2.1)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-set-up-windows-service-6-2-1/120183>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 16, 2018, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-set-up-windows-service-6-2-1/120183 "2018-02-16T13:42:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![ezmani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ea924/32.png) [@ezmani](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ezmani)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-set-up-windows-service-6-2-1/120183/1 "2018-02-16T13:42:48Z")

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Hello there,

We are using version Elastic/Kibana version 6.2.1. Elastic service has a nice service installer to create the service. Kibana currently doesn't have one. However we were able to create a service using the NSSM using the stack overflow article from below.

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29261809/elastic-kibana-install-as-windows-service>

Is there an easier way to do this? or a recommendation from Elastic as to how to set this up without NSSM? The regular sc.exe create did NOT work.

Thanks!  
Mani

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**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 6:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-set-up-windows-service-6-2-1/120183/2 "2018-02-16T18:09:20Z")

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Looks like this has been discussed here as well: [Run Kibana as a service on Windows](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/run-kibana-as-a-service-on-windows/42359/6)

I'm not aware of any recommendation from Elastic on running Kibana as a service. However, there iare currently a couple of open issues on GitHub for this:

> <https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/6218>

  

> <https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/15963>

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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:** [March 16, 2018, 6:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-set-up-windows-service-6-2-1/120183/3 "2018-03-16T18:09:31Z")

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