title: How to setup Splunk Universal Forwarder on Windows Azure web role?
body: <p>What is the best way(cost effective) to setup Splunk Universal Forwarder on a Windows Azure web role instance?</p>
  
  <p>The download page on <a href="http://www.splunk.com/download/universalforwarder" rel="nofollow">Splunk Website</a> has an installer for Windows, but not sure how could we run in to install and configure on every deployment to Windows Azure.</p>