I'm accessing a Linux VM through a terminal and I want to run Kibana as a service, so when I exit it will still be running. What are the best ways to do this? Write a script?

So you just want to start Kibana in the background. There is no built-in support for that, because there is the nohup posix tool, that does that. From a shell you should be able to just execute $ nohup bin/kibana & from the directory Kibana was unpacked into. Alternatively you can use a tool like…

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Stacey_Gammon (Stacey Gammon) June 12, 2017, 8:30pm 2

Your question looks similar to this past post, which may provide some helpful suggestions: Running kibana as a service on Linux

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