---
title: "RunningService"
description: "a service of the platform, with its life"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/runningservice
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# RunningService

a service of the platform, with its life

[figure: RunningService is a work at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | work |
| scope | platform |
| key | its role and version |
| store | postgres |
| family | operations |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `role` | `text` | yes |  |
| `version` | `text` | yes |  |
| `host` | `text` | yes |  |
| `ready_at` | `time` | no |  |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns RunningService directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.