# 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:** ![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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