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\

Answer 1

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