logstash-forwarder

I'm struggling to create a Windows Service for a logstash forwarder on Windows 2008 R2 Server. My setup looks as follows: Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana Windows Server 2008 R2: Application logging to a certain path. Ship logs to the ELK Stack via Logstash-forwarder I'm currently shipping logs successfully to the ELK-Stack via Logstash forwarder compiled for Windows using the instructions here... https://github.com/elastic/logstash-forwarder . The only problem is, that I have to run the logstash forwarder in a CLI window, and I'm not able to set it up as a Windows Service