I tried to use the powershell install script, but it created a service that would not start.
Then i looked at the script and the service and found extra slash erroneously put in there
install-service-filebeat.ps1:
....
# create new service
New-Service -name filebeat -displayName filebeat
-binaryPathName ""$workdir\\filebeat.exe" -c "$workdir\\filebeat.yml" -path.home "$workdir" -path.data "C:\\ProgramData\\filebeat" -path.logs "C:\\ProgramData\\filebeat\logs""
And the service:
