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Want to run Otel collecor agent as Windows services. So downloaded latest windows release package and run the following command to create service and start the service.

sc.exe create otelcol displayname= otelcol start= delayed-auto
binPath=
"C:\Users\admin\otelcol-contrib_0.94.0_windows_386\otelcol-contrib.exe
--config C:\Users\admin\Core-Otel.yaml" sc.exe start otelcol

but the service is not started and resulted with error on event viewer as

The otelcol service terminated with the following error: An exception occurred in the service when handling the control request.

Agent version: 0.94.0 OS: Windows servers

Could any one point the right direction to deploy the Otel agent as windows service ?

Updated command with quotes for folder paths:

sc.exe create otelcol displayname= otelcol start= delayed-auto
binPath=
\""C:\Users\admin\otelcol-contrib_0.94.0_windows_386\otelcol-contrib.exe\"
 --config \"C:\Users\admin\Core-Otel.yaml\"" 
sc.exe description "Otelcol"
sc.exe start otelcol
saravana
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To run as a system service, a program must implement the ServiceMain protocol. This means that a program must be programmed to be a system service, and not just any program can be run as a service.

There are programs that can wrap up any program and provide the necessary protocol:

Note that the only way to find out if a program can run in the very strict environment in which services are run, is to try it.

harrymc
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