diff --git a/Godeps_windows b/Godeps_windows
index 18e45a7da..f11fc633b 100644
--- a/Godeps_windows
+++ b/Godeps_windows
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
-github.com/Microsoft/go-winio 9f57cbbcbcb41dea496528872a4f0e37a4f7ae98
 github.com/Shopify/sarama 8aadb476e66ca998f2f6bb3c993e9a2daa3666b9
 github.com/Sirupsen/logrus 219c8cb75c258c552e999735be6df753ffc7afdc
-github.com/StackExchange/wmi f3e2bae1e0cb5aef83e319133eabfee30013a4a5
 github.com/amir/raidman 53c1b967405155bfc8758557863bf2e14f814687
 github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go 13a12060f716145019378a10e2806c174356b857
 github.com/beorn7/perks 3ac7bf7a47d159a033b107610db8a1b6575507a4
@@ -17,7 +15,6 @@ github.com/docker/go-units 5d2041e26a699eaca682e2ea41c8f891e1060444
 github.com/eapache/go-resiliency b86b1ec0dd4209a588dc1285cdd471e73525c0b3
 github.com/eapache/queue ded5959c0d4e360646dc9e9908cff48666781367
 github.com/eclipse/paho.mqtt.golang 0f7a459f04f13a41b7ed752d47944528d4bf9a86
-github.com/go-ole/go-ole 50055884d646dd9434f16bbb5c9801749b9bafe4
 github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql 1fca743146605a172a266e1654e01e5cd5669bee
 github.com/gobwas/glob 49571a1557cd20e6a2410adc6421f85b66c730b5
 github.com/golang/protobuf 552c7b9542c194800fd493123b3798ef0a832032
@@ -31,9 +28,10 @@ github.com/hpcloud/tail b2940955ab8b26e19d43a43c4da0475dd81bdb56
 github.com/influxdata/config b79f6829346b8d6e78ba73544b1e1038f1f1c9da
 github.com/influxdata/influxdb e094138084855d444195b252314dfee9eae34cab
 github.com/influxdata/toml af4df43894b16e3fd2b788d01bd27ad0776ef2d0
+github.com/kardianos/osext 29ae4ffbc9a6fe9fb2bc5029050ce6996ea1d3bc
+github.com/kardianos/service 5e335590050d6d00f3aa270217d288dda1c94d0a
 github.com/klauspost/crc32 19b0b332c9e4516a6370a0456e6182c3b5036720
 github.com/lib/pq e182dc4027e2ded4b19396d638610f2653295f36
-github.com/lxn/win 9a7734ea4db26bc593d52f6a8a957afdad39c5c1
 github.com/matttproud/golang_protobuf_extensions d0c3fe89de86839aecf2e0579c40ba3bb336a453
 github.com/miekg/dns cce6c130cdb92c752850880fd285bea1d64439dd
 github.com/mreiferson/go-snappystream 028eae7ab5c4c9e2d1cb4c4ca1e53259bbe7e504
@@ -41,13 +39,13 @@ github.com/naoina/go-stringutil 6b638e95a32d0c1131db0e7fe83775cbea4a0d0b
 github.com/nats-io/nats b13fc9d12b0b123ebc374e6b808c6228ae4234a3
 github.com/nats-io/nuid 4f84f5f3b2786224e336af2e13dba0a0a80b76fa
 github.com/nsqio/go-nsq 0b80d6f05e15ca1930e0c5e1d540ed627e299980
+github.com/opencontainers/runc 89ab7f2ccc1e45ddf6485eaa802c35dcf321dfc8
 github.com/prometheus/client_golang 18acf9993a863f4c4b40612e19cdd243e7c86831
 github.com/prometheus/client_model fa8ad6fec33561be4280a8f0514318c79d7f6cb6
 github.com/prometheus/common e8eabff8812b05acf522b45fdcd725a785188e37
 github.com/prometheus/procfs 406e5b7bfd8201a36e2bb5f7bdae0b03380c2ce8
 github.com/samuel/go-zookeeper 218e9c81c0dd8b3b18172b2bbfad92cc7d6db55f
 github.com/shirou/gopsutil 586bb697f3ec9f8ec08ffefe18f521a64534037c
-github.com/shirou/w32 ada3ba68f000aa1b58580e45c9d308fe0b7fc5c5
 github.com/soniah/gosnmp b1b4f885b12c5dcbd021c5cee1c904110de6db7d
 github.com/streadway/amqp b4f3ceab0337f013208d31348b578d83c0064744
 github.com/stretchr/testify 1f4a1643a57e798696635ea4c126e9127adb7d3c
@@ -55,6 +53,7 @@ github.com/vjeantet/grok 83bfdfdfd1a8146795b28e547a8e3c8b28a466c2
 github.com/wvanbergen/kafka 46f9a1cf3f670edec492029fadded9c2d9e18866
 github.com/wvanbergen/kazoo-go 0f768712ae6f76454f987c3356177e138df258f8
 github.com/zensqlmonitor/go-mssqldb ffe5510c6fa5e15e6d983210ab501c815b56b363
+golang.org/x/crypto 5dc8cb4b8a8eb076cbb5a06bc3b8682c15bdbbd3
 golang.org/x/net 6acef71eb69611914f7a30939ea9f6e194c78172
 golang.org/x/text a71fd10341b064c10f4a81ceac72bcf70f26ea34
 gopkg.in/dancannon/gorethink.v1 7d1af5be49cb5ecc7b177bf387d232050299d6ef
diff --git a/cmd/telegraf/service.go b/cmd/telegraf/service.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4fa699c2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/telegraf/service.go
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+// Run the telegraf data collector
+package main
+
+import (
+	"log"
+
+	"github.com/kardianos/service"
+)
+
+var logger service.Logger
+
+var stop chan struct{}
+
+var srvc service.Service
+
+type program struct{}
+
+func (p *program) Start(s service.Service) error {
+	srvc = s
+	go p.run()
+	return nil
+}
+func (p *program) run() {
+	stop = make(chan struct{})
+	reloadLoop(stop, srvc)
+}
+func (p *program) Stop(s service.Service) error {
+	close(stop)
+	return nil
+}
+
+func main() {
+	svcConfig := &service.Config{
+		Name:        "telegraf",
+		DisplayName: "Telegraf Data Collector Service",
+		Description: "Collects data using a series of plugins and publishes it to" +
+			"another series of plugins.",
+	}
+
+	prg := &program{}
+	s, err := service.New(prg, svcConfig)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	logger, err = s.Logger(nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	err = s.Run()
+	if err != nil {
+		logger.Error(err)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/cmd/telegraf/telegraf.go b/cmd/telegraf/telegraf.go
index 6681ad073..766a91c2e 100644
--- a/cmd/telegraf/telegraf.go
+++ b/cmd/telegraf/telegraf.go
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import (
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/all"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/outputs"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/outputs/all"
+	"github.com/kardianos/service"
 )
 
 var fDebug = flag.Bool("debug", false,
@@ -45,6 +46,8 @@ var fOutputFiltersLegacy = flag.String("outputfilter", "",
 	"filter the outputs to enable, separator is :")
 var fConfigDirectoryLegacy = flag.String("configdirectory", "",
 	"directory containing additional *.conf files")
+var fService = flag.String("service", "",
+	"operate on the service")
 
 // Telegraf version, populated linker.
 //   ie, -ldflags "-X main.version=`git describe --always --tags`"
@@ -74,6 +77,7 @@ The flags are:
   -debug             print metrics as they're generated to stdout
   -quiet             run in quiet mode
   -version           print the version to stdout
+  -service           Control the service, ie, 'telegraf -service install'
 
 In addition to the -config flag, telegraf will also load the config file from
 an environment variable or default location. Precedence is:
@@ -100,7 +104,13 @@ Examples:
   telegraf -config telegraf.conf -input-filter cpu:mem -output-filter influxdb
 `
 
-func main() {
+func reloadLoop(stop chan struct{}, s service.Service) {
+	defer func() {
+		if service.Interactive() {
+			os.Exit(0)
+		}
+		return
+	}()
 	reload := make(chan bool, 1)
 	reload <- true
 	for <-reload {
@@ -181,6 +191,14 @@ func main() {
 			return
 		}
 
+		if *fService != "" {
+			err := service.Control(s, *fService)
+			if err != nil {
+				log.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			return
+		}
+
 		// If no other options are specified, load the config file and run.
 		c := config.NewConfig()
 		c.OutputFilters = outputFilters
@@ -243,14 +261,18 @@ func main() {
 		signals := make(chan os.Signal)
 		signal.Notify(signals, os.Interrupt, syscall.SIGHUP)
 		go func() {
-			sig := <-signals
-			if sig == os.Interrupt {
-				close(shutdown)
-			}
-			if sig == syscall.SIGHUP {
-				log.Printf("Reloading Telegraf config\n")
-				<-reload
-				reload <- true
+			select {
+			case sig := <-signals:
+				if sig == os.Interrupt {
+					close(shutdown)
+				}
+				if sig == syscall.SIGHUP {
+					log.Printf("Reloading Telegraf config\n")
+					<-reload
+					reload <- true
+					close(shutdown)
+				}
+			case <-stop:
 				close(shutdown)
 			}
 		}()