Servy

Servy lets you run any app as a native Windows service with full control over the working directory, startup type, process priority, CPU affinity, logging, health checks, environment variables, dependencies, pre-launch and post-launch hooks, pre-stop and post-stop hooks, and parameters.

Servy is digitally signed with a code-signing certificate provided by the SignPath Foundation. The signature verifies the publisher, enables Windows to detect any modification of the released binaries and installers, and prevents SmartScreen warnings.

Servy offers a desktop app, a CLI, and a PowerShell module that let you create, configure, and manage Windows services interactively or through scripts and CI/CD pipelines. It also includes a Manager app for easily monitoring and managing all installed services in real time.

Features:

- Clean, simple UI

- Monitor and manage all installed services with Servy Manager

- Real-time CPU and RAM monitoring with live performance graphs for installed services

- Real-time service stdout and stderr output preview in Servy Console

- Service dependency tree visualization with status indicators

- CLI and PowerShell module for full scripting and automated deployments

- Run any executable as a Windows service

- Set service name, description, startup type, priority, CPU affinity, working directory, environment variables, and dependencies

- Environment variable expansion supported in parameters, process paths, and startup directories

- Run services as Local System, local or domain accounts, Active Directory accounts, or gMSAs

- Redirect stdout/stderr to log files with automatic size-based and date-based rotations

- Run pre-launch hooks before starting the service, with retries, timeout, logging and failure handling

- Run post-launch hooks after the application starts successfully

- Run pre-stop and post-stop hooks before and after the application stops

- Supports Ctrl+C for command-line apps, close-window for GUI apps, and force kill if unresponsive

- Supports Ctrl+C propagation to descendant processes of the wrapped process

- Prevent orphaned/zombie processes with improved lifecycle management while ensuring resource cleanup

- Health checks and automatic service recovery

- Browse and search logs by level, date, and keyword for faster troubleshooting from Servy Manager

- Export/Import service configurations for easy backups and automation

- Service Event Notification alerts on service failures via Windows notifications and email

- Compatible with Windows 7 SP1 through 11 (x64/ARM64) and Windows Server editions

Who is it for?

- Developers: Run development servers, scripts, or custom tools as services without extra setup.

- Sysadmins & IT professionals: Ensure critical background processes stay alive, monitored, and properly logged.

- Teams or organizations: Automate background services reliably across multiple machines.