failied to start service in centos7

[vadirajks]

Same jar works fine with centos6 but it is failing to start service in centos7. Please help me to figure out what went wrong?

CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)
jdk1.8.0_144-1.8.0_144-fcs.x86_64

kafka.metrics.reporters=com.criteo.kafka.KafkaGraphiteMetricsReporter,kafka.metrics.KafkaCSVMetricsReporter
kafka.graphite.metrics.reporter.enabled=true
kafka.graphite.metrics.host=localhost
kafka.graphite.metrics.port=2003
kafka.graphite.metrics.group=test1

[2018-07-28 16:18:05,425] INFO Registered kafka:type=kafka.Log4jController MBean (kafka.utils.Log4jControllerRegistration$)
[2018-07-28 16:18:06,134] DEBUG Initialize GraphiteReporter [localhost,2003,test1] (com.criteo.kafka.KafkaGraphiteMetricsReporter)
[2018-07-28 16:18:06,174] DEBUG The following Metrics Dimensions will be sent [count, meanRate, rate1m, rate5m, rate15m, min, max, mean, stddev, sum, median, p75, p95, p98, p99, p999] (com.criteo.kafka.KafkaGraphiteMetricsReporter)
[2018-07-28 16:18:06,188] INFO Started Kafka Graphite metrics reporter with polling period 10 seconds (com.criteo.kafka.KafkaGraphiteMetricsReporter)
[2018-07-28 16:18:06,188] DEBUG GraphiteReporter started. (com.criteo.kafka.KafkaGraphiteMetricsReporter)
[2018-07-28 16:18:06,217] ERROR Exiting Kafka due to fatal exception (kafka.Kafka$)
java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /kafka_metrics
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:84)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.createDirectory(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:384)
at java.nio.file.Files.createDirectory(Files.java:674)
at java.nio.file.Files.createAndCheckIsDirectory(Files.java:781)
at java.nio.file.Files.createDirectories(Files.java:767)
at kafka.metrics.KafkaCSVMetricsReporter.init(KafkaCSVMetricsReporter.scala:54)
at kafka.metrics.KafkaMetricsReporter$.$anonfun$startReporters$1(KafkaMetricsReporter.scala:66)
at scala.collection.IndexedSeqOptimized.foreach(IndexedSeqOptimized.scala:32)
at scala.collection.IndexedSeqOptimized.foreach$(IndexedSeqOptimized.scala:29)
at scala.collection.mutable.WrappedArray.foreach(WrappedArray.scala:38)
at kafka.metrics.KafkaMetricsReporter$.startReporters(KafkaMetricsReporter.scala:64)
at kafka.server.KafkaServerStartable$.fromProps(KafkaServerStartable.scala:27)
at kafka.Kafka$.main(Kafka.scala:82)
at kafka.Kafka.main(Kafka.scala)

Thanks for all the helps!!