Metricbeat Windows service fails to start at boot

[andrewkroh]

For confirmed bugs, please report:

• Version: 5.4 (other versions appear to be affected)
• Operating System: Windows 2012 R2
• Steps to Reproduce:
  • Install metricbeat as a service, enable service, reboot.
  • Check the event log and see that the service failed to start due to a timeout.

Discuss:

• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-windows-fails-to-start-on-reboot-timeout/84973
• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-5-1-2-does-not-start-automatically/86165/6

[radoondas]

Little information from setup might help as report from systems with this issue:
On the server with metricbeat 5.1.2 "Automatic Delayed Start" helped.
But on the server with metricbeat 5.4.0 didn't.

[Elufimov]

We use delayed start as workaround on all beats.

[ismael-hasan]

• Version 5.2.2
• WIndows 10
• Steps to reproduce
  • Install Metricbeat as a service
  • Set startup to automatic
  • Restart

Upon restart, the service is not restarted; it seems it times out; Windows event logs show:

EventID 7009 - A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the metricbeat service to connect.

EventID 7000 - The metricbeat service failed to start due to the following error: 
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

Using automatic delayed start solves the issue

[PhaedrusTheGreek]

I'm experiencing this issue with Metricbeat and Filebeat 5.4 under Windows, and setting the service the "Automatic Delayed Start" did not resolve the issue.

From the Event Log:

The DataHub metricbeat service failed to start due to the following error: 
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the DataHub metricbeat service to connect.

[andrewkroh]

These are PRs to the various release branches.

5.4 - #4499
5.5 - #4500
6.0 (master) - #4491

[ismael-hasan]

Thank you @andrewkroh !

[HusseinKothari26]

I'm still facing the same issue. I tried installing metricbeat 5.4.3 and 5.5.0 but Metricbeat Windows service still fails to start. It seems this fix is not working.

[andrewkroh]

@HusseinKothari26 Is there any log output from the Beat when it fails to startup?

[PhaedrusTheGreek]

Any other issues circumstances might be due to this issue: #5453, where the reason for startup failure just isn't conveniently visible.