How to check if ZooKeeper is running or up from co

Question

I exploring a few options to setup kafka and I knew that the Zookeeper has to be up and running to initiate a kafka.

I would like to know how can I find the below.

1) hostname and port for my zookeeper instance---I checked the zoo.cfg and I could only find the ClientPort not the hostname, will hostname be the hostname of my box??

2) To check if ZooKeeper is up and running---I tried to do a ps -ef | grep "zoo" I could not find anything. May be I am using a wrong key word to search??

Any help would be really appreciated?

Answer 1

To check if Zookeeper is accessible. One method is to simply telnet to the proper port and execute the stats command.

root@host:~# telnet localhost 2181
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to myhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
stats
Zookeeper version: 3.4.3-cdh4.0.1--1, built on 06/28/2012 23:59 GMT
Clients:

Latency min/avg/max: 0/0/677
Received: 4684478
Sent: 4687034
Outstanding: 0
Zxid: 0xb00187dd0
Mode: leader
Node count: 127182
Connection closed by foreign host.

Answer 2

Go to bin directory of Zookeeper and type

./zkServer.sh status

For More info go through below link:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/bd-zookeeper/

Hope this could help you.