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+# Running Telegraf as a Windows Service
+
+If you have tried to install Go binaries as Windows Services with the **sc.exe**
+tool you may have seen that the service errors and stops running after a while.
+
+**NSSM** (the Non-Sucking Service Manager) is a tool that helps you in a 
+[number of scenarios](http://nssm.cc/scenarios) including running Go binaries
+that were not specifically designed to run only in Windows platforms.
+
+## NSSM Installation via Chocolatey
+
+You can install [Chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org/) and [NSSM](http://nssm.cc/) 
+with these commands
+
+```powershell
+iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
+choco install -y nssm
+```
+
+## Installing Telegraf as a Windows Service with NSSM
+
+You can download the latest Telegraf Windows binaries (still Experimental at 
+the moment) from [the Telegraf Github repo](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf).
+
+Then you can create a C:\telegraf folder, unzip the binary there and modify the 
+**telegraf.conf** sample to allocate the metrics you want to send to **InfluxDB**.
+
+Once you have NSSM installed in your system, the process is quite straightforward.
+You only need to type this command in your Windows shell
+
+```powershell
+nssm install Telegraf c:\telegraf\telegraf.exe -config c:\telegraf\telegraf.config
+```
+
+And now your service will be installed in Windows and you will be able to start and
+stop it gracefully