Prometheus as Windows Service

[Lukas Bahr]

Hello everyone,

i've downloaded prometheus for windows and can successfully start it whilst i'm logged in via RDS.
To run it in background, i've tried to wrap a service around but starting it as a MS Windows Service failed.

sc.exe create prometheus_server binPath="PATH_TO_EXE\prometheus.exe --config.file=PATH_TO_CONFIG\prometheus.yml"

After starting the service, prometheus runs for a short time, until (i guess) the service manager runs into a timeout because of a missing response of a successful start.

My current environment

• Windows Sever 2012
• prometheus-2.2.0-rc.1.windows-amd64
• sample/default config file

Do you have any solution for that? Thanks and kind Regards
Lukas

[jean.j...@gmail.com]

Hi Lukas,

Did you ever figure out a solution to running Prometheus as Windows service?

Regards,

Jean

[Alin Sînpălean]

Never tried running Prometheus on Windows, but I am running a WMI exporter for Prometheus. If you're willing to go into the Prometheus source code and make some changes, it doesn't look all that daunting.

IIRC the setup was straightforward and the script for packaging it as an MSI is also there.  If you look at the source code, it the necessary additions are small and well-contained: just search for "svc" in https://github.com/martinlindhe/wmi_exporter/blob/master/exporter.go

Cheers,

Alin.

[Eduard-Cristian Stefan]

I'm using NSSM to run Prometheus, WMI Exporter, and Grafana under Windows Server 2008 R2 x64.

With recent NSSM betas you can dump an existing service as the commands needed to install it again:

nssm.exe install _prometheus C:\tools\prometheus\prometheus.exe

nssm.exe set _prometheus AppParameters "--config.file C:\tools\prometheus\prometheus.yml"

nssm.exe set _prometheus AppDirectory C:\tools\prometheus

nssm.exe set _prometheus AppExit Default Restart

nssm.exe set _prometheus AppRestartDelay 5000

nssm.exe set _prometheus AppStdout C:\tools\prometheus\logs\std_out.log

nssm.exe set _prometheus AppStdoutCreationDisposition 2

nssm.exe set _prometheus AppStderr C:\tools\prometheus\logs\std_err.log

nssm.exe set _prometheus AppStderrCreationDisposition 2

nssm.exe set _prometheus AppStopMethodSkip 6

nssm.exe set _prometheus AppStopMethodConsole 5000

nssm.exe set _prometheus AppThrottle 5000

nssm.exe set _prometheus AppRotateFiles 1

nssm.exe set _prometheus AppRotateOnline 1

nssm.exe set _prometheus AppRotateSeconds 86400

nssm.exe set _prometheus AppRotateBytes 10485760

nssm.exe set _prometheus DisplayName _prometheus

nssm.exe set _prometheus ObjectName LocalSystem

nssm.exe set _prometheus Start SERVICE_AUTO_START

nssm.exe set _prometheus Type SERVICE_WIN32_OWN_PROCESS

Have a nice day,

  Eduard

[thebitt...@gmail.com]

I have the same problem, tried about 5 different configurations without any luck. Windows 7. I'd like to do without NSSM if possible

пятница, 23 февраля 2018 г., 17:35:48 UTC+3 пользователь Lukas Bahr написал:

[Eduard-Cristian Stefan]

On Monday, September 24, 2018 at 3:20:55 PM UTC+3, thebitt...@gmail.com wrote:

I have the same problem, tried about 5 different configurations without any luck. Windows 7. I'd like to do without NSSM if possible

 

Well, you could try cygrunsrv: http://cygwin.wikia.com/wiki/Cygrunsrv

Good luck,

  Eduard

[thebitt...@gmail.com]

I just repeated most of your setup and the service runs fine (fetches data from various places), but the log files are empty, both of them.

 nssm install prometheus D:\prometheus\bin\prometheus.exe "--config.file=D:\prometheus\config\prometheus.yml --storage.tsdb.path=D:\prometheus\data --storage.tsdb.retention.time=16w --log.level=info"
 nssm set prometheus AppStdout D:\prometheus\logs\std_out.log
 nssm set prometheus AppStdoutCreationDisposition 2
 nssm set prometheus AppStderr D:\prometheus\logs\std_err.log
 nssm set prometheus AppStderrCreationDisposition 2

Is there something I'm missing?

пятница, 1 июня 2018 г., 14:02:19 UTC+3 пользователь Eduard-Cristian Stefan написал:

[thebitt...@gmail.com]

Also added rotation parameters, but log files are still empty. When I run prometheus as a console app, it writes logs just fine

среда, 15 мая 2019 г., 13:04:22 UTC+3 пользователь thebitt...@gmail.com написал:

[thebitt...@gmail.com]

Problem is - I checked web ui and parameters were passed correctly, but logs are still empty

среда, 15 мая 2019 г., 13:29:27 UTC+3 пользователь thebitt...@gmail.com написал:

[frank....@interface-projects.de]

maybe the user (most of the time this is LOCALSYSTEM) under which the service runs, has no permissions to write to the desired files. Did you check your windows eventlog?

[thebitt...@gmail.com]

I doubt that's the case, since the files are created but are empty. I looked at event viewer - nssm says it started the server and there are no errors

четверг, 16 мая 2019 г., 11:42:22 UTC+3 пользователь frank....@interface-projects.de написал:

[thebitt...@gmail.com]

Did the output redirect work for you? I'm starting to think that problem is not due to NSSM - it may be how Go logging library work inside Windows.

четверг, 16 мая 2019 г., 11:42:22 UTC+3 пользователь frank....@interface-projects.de написал:

[Frank Taffelt]

Yes for me it’s working. I use nssm 2.24. One difference is, I’m logging  both fd to same file:

 

%NSSM% set %SERVICENAME% AppStdout %PROMHOME%\logs\service.log

%NSSM% set %SERVICENAME% AppStderr %PROMHOME%\logs\service.log

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[thebitt...@gmail.com]

Well, I run it for several days, and the logs appeared - all of them are in one file, although I configured separate ones. 

Not a big deal though.

Thanks Frank

четверг, 16 мая 2019 г., 16:34:56 UTC+3 пользователь Frank Taffelt написал:

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[thebitt...@gmail.com]

What I don't understand is that log file is overwritten when I restart the service. I don't want that, documentation says the default is to append to existing files. DId I do something wrong? Here's my config:

nssm install prom_exporter_general D:\soft\wmi_exporter.exe

nssm set prom_exporter_general AppParameters  "--collectors.enabled """cpu,cs,os,logical_disk,net,system""" --telemetry.addr=""":5015"
nssm set prom_exporter_general AppStdout D:\path\to\prometheus\logs\exporter_std_out.log
nssm set prom_exporter_general AppStdoutCreationDisposition 2
nssm set prom_exporter_general AppStderr D:\path\to\prometheus\logs\exporter_std_error.log
nssm set prom_exporter_general AppStderrCreationDisposition 2


nssm set prom_exporter_general AppRotateFiles 1
nssm set prom_exporter_general AppRotateOnline 1
nssm set prom_exporter_general AppRotateSeconds 86400
nssm set prom_exporter_general AppRotateBytes 10485760


nssm start prom_exporter_general

вторник, 21 мая 2019 г., 12:10:23 UTC+3 пользователь thebitt...@gmail.com написал:

[Frank Taffelt]

I think you should set the param for AppStdoutCreationDisposition and AppStderrCreationDisposition to 4, which maps  to OPEN_ALWAYS.

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[Frank Taffelt]

Or maybe better use the gui with nssm edit.

 

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[thebitt...@gmail.com]

Thanks! I tried to understand what that parameter means.

Everything is fine now

вторник, 21 мая 2019 г., 12:56:17 UTC+3 пользователь Frank Taffelt написал:

[Eivind Gussiås Løkseth]

I found this thread after first finding the GitHub issue where the question was asked initially. I would like to add a comment to that issue to link directly to this tread, but unfortunately the issue is locked and only participants can add more comments to it. So maybe you could, @thebitt? This is the link to add to issue #3881: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/prometheus-users/NjtTA7vsVJ8/Nq7tOHtDAAAJ

[gopal...@gmail.com]

Hi,

Is the issue resolved, can some one help me on this. 

I am trying to run as service in windows VM but it was failed.

[ManuelH]

Hello,

Is it possible to start Prometheus as a service in Windows without using third-party apps? Any clue why this is not working? 

Regards