We don't have PID files now. You can figure out the instance from the config dir in the command line.
Thanks, Jun On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Hanish Bansal < hanish.bansal.agar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > > I was just trying to create a monitoring service of my own for Kafka. I > wanted to know if Kafka provides any sort of functionality for pid files > which I can see to check if Kafka is up or not. > > My scenario is: > > I will have 2 Kafka instances running on same machine with different > configurations i.e. their home directories will be different. > I want to start a specific Kafka instance if any one of the two gets > killed. So I wanted to know which Kafka instance is down. > > > So, how I can I get the PID of a particular Kafka instance ? > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > *Thanks & Regards* > *Hanish Bansal* >