# Streaming Engine Manager Keeps going away **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [March 10, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-engine-manager-keeps-going-away/35015 "2014-03-10T21:50:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Brian\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Brian\_T](https://community.wowza.com/u/Brian_T)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-engine-manager-keeps-going-away/35015/1 "2014-03-10T21:50:13Z")
I boot the machine, and start Wowza as a service. Wowza crashes or stop running ocassionally (havent found why yet) Then I re-start Wowza as a service. The videos stream, but stream engine does not come back up on port 8088. Restarting Wowza makes no difference, I have to reboot the machine to get it back. Any ideas whats going on how to fix? Thx ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_Young](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/matt_young/32/389_2.png) [@Matt\_Young](https://community.wowza.com/u/Matt_Young)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 6:08am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-engine-manager-keeps-going-away/35015/2 "2014-03-11T06:08:54Z")
When the machine crashes, do you try to restart the manager itself? You can do so via [install-dir]/manager/bin/startmgr.sh. To address the initial problem (crashing), do you have corresponding access logs for when your server is crashing? Can you post a block of it here? ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Brian\_T](https://community.wowza.com/u/Brian_T)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 10:10pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-engine-manager-keeps-going-away/35015/3 "2014-03-20T22:10:55Z")
The for letting me know how to start just the mgr, that is helpful. I ended up upgrading the server and the issue went away. Thx for the help.