Could not setup filebeat on Windows Server 2012 R2
<p>I setup a logserver on a Ubuntu machine. And I need to ship Windows Server 2012 Apache logs to logserver.</p>

<p>Now I am trying to setup filebeat on Windows server to ship logs to logserver: <a href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-getting-started.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-getting-started.html</a></p>

<p>Version : filebeat-1.0.1-windows</p>

<p>But I failed to start filebeat on my server . It threw following error on power shell:</p>

<pre><code>Start-Service : Service 'filebeat (filebeat)' cannot be started due to the following error: Cannot start service
filebeat on computer '.'.
At line:1 char:1
+ Start-Service filebeat
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : OpenError: (System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController:ServiceController) [Start-Service],
   ServiceCommandException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CouldNotStartService,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StartServiceCommand
</code></pre>

<p>Anyone have the solution?</p>