Getting No config files found in path in the cmd

[ItsGautam (Gautam)]

Logstash stopped processing because of an error: (SystemExit) exit in the cmd prompt

conf file:
input {
file {
type => "logs"
path => "C:\elk\elk-stack"
start_position=>"beginning"
codec => multiline {
pattern => "^%{YEAR}-%{MONTHNUM}-%{MONTHDAY} %{TIME}.*"

}

}

output {

stdout {
codec => rubydebug
}

Sending properly parsed log events to elasticsearch

elasticsearch {
hosts => ["localhost:9200"]
}
}