title: Running Filebeat in windows
body: <p>I set up filebeat on windows recently using these instructions </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://www.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat" rel="noreferrer">https://www.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat</a></p>
  
  <p>but it forces me to keep a cmd prompt open running the command</p>
  
  <p>filebeat.exe -c filebeat.yml</p>
  
  <p>I am wondering if there is a way to run this as a background process?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>