Elastic Kibana - install as windows service

Question

How can I install Elastic Kibana (which is just a batch file) as a windows service?

It probably needs to depend on the ElasticSearch process as well (this assumes I'm running it on the same server)

Answer 1

The following command will create the service with a name of "ElasticSearch Kibana 4.0.1" and make it depend on ElasticSearch so it doesn't try to start too soon.

sc create "ElasticSearch Kibana 4.0.1" binPath= "{path to batch file}" depend= "elasticsearch-service-x64"  

Answer 2

The kibana.bat file delivered with Kibana 4.6.1 was not suited to use with sc create directly for me (Service start failed). I used nssm like this

1. nssm install kibana461
2. UI: choose kibana.bat as Application Path
3. UI: select a log file to write to on "I/O" tab for stdout and stderr
4. UI: on the "Dependencies" tab enter elasticsearch241 (or whatever you called it)
5. UI: "Install Service"
6. sc start kibana461