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.

Starting from v10.2, Servy provides enterprise-grade per-service isolation between custom accounts, authenticated encryption, and automated ACL hardening. All releases feature signed binaries, SBOMs, and continuous vulnerability scanning.

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.

Servy continuously monitors your app, restarting it automatically if it crashes, hangs, or stops. It allows non-service apps to run in the background and start automatically at system boot, even before logon, without rewriting them as services. Use it to run Node.js, Python, .NET, Java, Go, Rust, PHP, or Ruby applications; keep web servers, LLMs, background workers, sync tools, or daemons alive after reboots; and automate task runners, schedulers, or scripts in production with built-in health checks, logging, and restart policies.

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

- Modern build (default, self-contained): Windows 10 (1809+), Windows 11 and Windows Server 2016+, on x64 and ARM64

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.