unable to run as a Windows service

[hunleyd]

If you add the postgres_exporter.exe as a Windows service, the service manager thinks it failed to start since the process never detaches and backgrounds itself. Service mgr then kills it and reports a failure. Any chance you can rectify? Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard

[jayceeb]

Any update on this? We are hitting this as well

[wrouesnel]

Marking this as help-wanted. I don't run any Windows servers at all, and getting tests into CI is..not trivial.

[alekssako]

You can do the following :

1. Go to System Environment Variables and add it as an System variable
   Variable name : DATA_SOURCE_NAME
   Variable value: postgresql://postgres:password@localhost:5432/postgres?sslmode=disable
2. Go to Firewall add inbound port 9187
3. Read this thread to install .exe as a service:
   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3582108/create-windows-service-from-executable#answer-15719678

You welcome. ^_^