Provide Windows Service

[pickypg]

Now that there's a Linux service release of Kibana (#5187), it would be great if there was a Windows Service installer/launcher too.

[onemark]

Yes that would be awesome!

[akg-dotnet-dev]

Any update on this as when this would be available ?

[onemark]

Kibana and Elasticsearch windows installer is being developed (release date not yet set), being said by Elastic support beginning of November 2016. I'll ask what the status is on that.

[emrahcetiner]

Is there an update?

[russcam]

The Kibana MSI installer is at an alpha stage where we would love to start gathering wider feedback on it from the community.

The installer can be built from the Windows installer's github repository, from the feature/kibana branch. It should be straightforwad to build:

1. Clone the repository
2. Run the build.bat script in the root of the repo
3. A Kibana and Elasticsearch MSI will be built and output to the ~/build/out directory.
4. Run the MSI by double clicking

If you encounter any issues, please feel free to open an issue on the repository.

With regards to a release schedule, once the installer is in a place where we are happy for a first release, it'll need to be included in the Elastic unified release. We don't have a definitive timeline for when this will be, but we are actively working on it!

[ScottSchwalm]

Is there an update when an installer for windows and the option to run as a service will be available?

[russcam]

@ScottSchwalm no update at this time; we're currently focused on getting the Elasticsearch Windows Installer ready for the 6.0 GA release which includes a fair few changes.

[LeeDr]

@russcam I just pointed someone to try out https://github.com/elastic/windows-installers/tree/feature/kibana from your previous comment and found that its no longer there.

I think we should treat this topic as 2 separate issues;

• a Windows installer (I think there's currently problems with Kibana having tens of thousands of files?) Create Windows MSI installer for Kibana  #15963
• a script to create a Windows service (this issue). Ideally we would try to be consistent with either what Elasticsearch does or what Beats do for creating the service.

The script to create the Windows service would help a lot of people and shouldn't be blocked by the Windows installer task. The description of this issue is really asking for the Windows service. So I just created another issue for the Windows MSI installer (referenced above).

[russcam]

@LeeDr the installers code base has changed considerably since #6218 (comment); the changes have been around improving the Elasticsearch installer, with changes to the Kibana part only to allow it to continue to compile. as such, I would not at this time suggest building an installer from it since it is likely to not work as intended right now.