How do I stop Kibana in Windows?

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I downloaded elasticsearch 5.0.0 along with Kibana. I started both, but I cannot find any way to STOP Kibana from running - apart from restarting my server (which I do not want to do), localhost:5601 keeps coming up with Kibana.

I cannot find any documentation online for how to stop this process.

service manager, run services.msc. in run and from the list find kibana sercvice and stop it — user3775217, Nov 11 '16 at 17:29

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

I had the same issue several times. It seems that Kibana is running with node.exe.

If you look in your Kibana folder (mine is kibana-5.0.0-windows-x86) you can see a folder called node.

If you try to delete the whole Kibana folder, there are some files locked by node, node.exe itself as well.

I used this c# class FileUtil (https://stackoverflow.com/a/20623311/1311130) to find the process and then delete it:

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        const string fileLocked = @"E:\kibana-5.0.0-windows-x86\node\node.exe";

        var processes = FileUtil.WhoIsLocking(fileLocked);

        processes.ForEach(p => p.Kill());
    }
}

Honestly I think is awful all this hassle to stop a program running, but until a better solution, this is the only one I found out.

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 04 '18 at 17:13

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In the Task Manager, if you look at the Details tab, you should be able to see node.exe in that list and kill the process there.

answered Jan 04 '18 at 17:13

Thomas Doman

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How do I stop Kibana in Windows?

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