From f8c84302a451f875a07d1075ea23278fc1c1954a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oscar Sironi <o.sironi@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 19:58:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add config file path troubleshooting advice for Windows
 (#3071)

---
 docs/WINDOWS_SERVICE.md | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/WINDOWS_SERVICE.md b/docs/WINDOWS_SERVICE.md
index 66046cdbb..c50a10785 100644
--- a/docs/WINDOWS_SERVICE.md
+++ b/docs/WINDOWS_SERVICE.md
@@ -37,3 +37,9 @@ Telegraf can manage its own service through the --service flag:
 | `telegraf.exe --service start`     | Start the telegraf service    |
 | `telegraf.exe --service stop`      | Stop the telegraf service     |
 
+
+Trobleshooting  common error #1067
+
+When installing as service in Windows, always double check to specify full path of the config file, otherwise windows service will fail to start
+
+ --config C:\"Program Files"\Telegraf\telegraf.conf