# Run kibana as a service **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [September 11, 2017, 5:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/run-kibana-as-a-service/100000 "2017-09-11T05:30:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![shrikantgulia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@shrikantgulia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shrikantgulia)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 5:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/run-kibana-as-a-service/100000/1 "2017-09-11T05:30:42Z")
How to run kibana and elasticsearch as a service ---
**Author:** ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/run-kibana-as-a-service/100000/2 "2017-09-11T14:21:18Z")
On which OS? ---
**Author:** ![shrikantgulia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@shrikantgulia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shrikantgulia)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 2:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/run-kibana-as-a-service/100000/3 "2017-09-11T14:32:53Z")
I wants to run it Ubuntu 14 ---
**Author:** ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/run-kibana-as-a-service/100000/4 "2017-09-11T16:11:14Z")
You should be able to install from APT or download the .deb manually and run Kibana using either sysV or systemd. More details here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/deb.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/deb.html) ---
**Author:** ![shrikantgulia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@shrikantgulia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shrikantgulia)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2017, 4:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/run-kibana-as-a-service/100000/5 "2017-09-12T04:50:00Z")
Thankyou for the reply My system uses SysV init as i run the first step(sudo update-rc.d kibana defaults 95 10). It say that etc/init.d kibana file does not exist. and in elasticsearch when i run this command (sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch start) it says (You must set the ES\_CLASSPATH var) ---
**Author:** ![mujtabahussain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mujtabahussain/32/17514_2.png) [@mujtabahussain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mujtabahussain)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2017, 5:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/run-kibana-as-a-service/100000/6 "2017-09-12T05:48:43Z")
[This](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/running-kibana-as-a-service-on-linux/72021) may or may not help. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![shrikantgulia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@shrikantgulia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shrikantgulia)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2017, 5:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/run-kibana-as-a-service/100000/7 "2017-09-12T05:51:38Z")
what should i do for his issue (You must set the ES\_CLASSPATH var). Help would be really appreciated ---
**Author:** ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/run-kibana-as-a-service/100000/8 "2017-09-12T15:47:36Z")
You might want to ask that in the Elasticsearch forum ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/run-kibana-as-a-service/100000/9 "2017-10-10T15:47:41Z")
This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.