https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/failure-in-starting-zookeeper-service/m-p/127416#M90131 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/16292/blshadi.html" nodeid="16292">@shadi Balloul</A></P><P>As you mentioned that "There are no logs in the log directory." That could be because of missing "${zookeeper.log.dir}" prefix.</P><P>Please check if you have added the "${zookeeper.log.dir}" to zookeeper log file as following in your ambari config.</P><P><STRONG>Ambari UI --&gt; "Zookeeper" --&gt; "Configs" --&gt; Advanced --&gt; "Advanced zookeeper-log4j" </STRONG></P><P><STRONG>.</STRONG></P><P><STRONG>CHANGE from:</STRONG></P><PRE>log4j.appender.ROLLINGFILE.File=zookeeper.log</PRE><P> <STRONG>TO Following:</STRONG></P><PRE>log4j.appender.ROLLINGFILE.File=${zookeeper.log.dir}/zookeeper.log</PRE><P>.</P><P>After making the changes restart the zookeeper service and then please share the log "${zookeeper.log.dir}/zookeeper.log"</P><P>.</P> Mon, 06 Mar 2017 22:30:54 GMT jsensharma 2017-03-06T22:30:54Z