Problems creating Kibana Windows Service

Question

I registered the Kibana binary as a service as described here.

When I try to start the service, I get the following error message:

However, when I try to access http://localhost:5602 in the browser, Kibana is loaded properly. But the service is still listed as "Stopped".

So it seems like the Kibana binaries are executed but the Windows Service doesn't know how to interprete the status? Any ideas on this?

Answer 1

It seems that you cannot just install a Windows service using a .bat file.

Take a look at this question & answer for a workaround: https://serverfault.com/a/56472/101433