How to check kafka server up and running via java pgm .

You'll do this the same, independent of what language you use.

One easy way is to just do a ps auxww | grep -i kafka or whatever process name kafka runs under.

And this won't really do you any good by itself.

My guess is what you're really asking is how to ensure kafka stays running, so if it dies, it auto restarts.

Generally when a process like kafka dies, there's a reason which requires manual intervention to fix.

Likely what you'll do is just check to see if kafka is running + if it's dead, then email/SMS a notification list of people required to fix the related problem.

Since this is a trivial task, I'm unsure what you mean by a "utility available" to do this.

Just set a CRON job to run every minute to test if kafka is running + email/SMS people when it dies.

kafkaadminclient will fail if the this program... loses track of the socket or pid file it's checking.

When you run into trouble using kafkaadminclient, you can always fallback to the ps approach.