# Metricbeat Windows fails to start on reboot - timeout

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-windows-fails-to-start-on-reboot-timeout/84973>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [May 8, 2017, 7:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-windows-fails-to-start-on-reboot-timeout/84973 "2017-05-08T19:38:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-windows-fails-to-start-on-reboot-timeout/84973/8 "2017-05-16T16:32:38Z")

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I'm seeing this issue too, I upgraded from 5.1.0 to 5.4.0 and now on reboot metricbeat fails to start. I enabled debug logging however nothing is logged at all. It seems it's probably starting too soon and requires some dependency service to be started first.

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/8/18bfdf85328610df5061883d358d65ffeaa35f38.png)

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/f/ff29be7bfedc54bf8f5aecaca3da79a586d9ab8f.png)

As a workaround I've changed metricbeat to be Automatic Delayed Start.

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