diff --git a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
index 8f78652fbfd6..b97c3b0d816b 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
@@ -287,6 +287,7 @@
   ./services/misc/emby.nix
   ./services/misc/errbot.nix
   ./services/misc/etcd.nix
+  ./services/misc/exhibitor.nix
   ./services/misc/felix.nix
   ./services/misc/folding-at-home.nix
   ./services/misc/fstrim.nix
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/misc/exhibitor.nix b/nixos/modules/services/misc/exhibitor.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..33580962bf71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/misc/exhibitor.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,361 @@
+{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
+
+with lib;
+
+let
+  cfg = config.services.exhibitor;
+  exhibitor = cfg.package;
+  exhibitorConfig = ''
+    zookeeper-install-directory=${cfg.baseDir}/zookeeper
+    zookeeper-data-directory=${cfg.zkDataDir}
+    zookeeper-log-directory=${cfg.zkLogDir}
+    zoo-cfg-extra=${cfg.zkExtraCfg}
+    client-port=${toString cfg.zkClientPort}
+    connect-port=${toString cfg.zkConnectPort}
+    election-port=${toString cfg.zkElectionPort}
+    cleanup-period-ms=${toString cfg.zkCleanupPeriod}
+    servers-spec=${concatStringsSep "," cfg.zkServersSpec}
+    auto-manage-instances=${toString cfg.autoManageInstances}
+    ${cfg.extraConf}
+  '';
+  configDir = pkgs.writeTextDir "exhibitor.properties" exhibitorConfig;
+  cliOptionsCommon = {
+    configtype = cfg.configType;
+    defaultconfig = "${configDir}/exhibitor.properties";
+    port = toString cfg.port;
+    hostname = cfg.hostname;
+  };
+  s3CommonOptions = { s3region = cfg.s3Region; s3credentials = cfg.s3Credentials; };
+  cliOptionsPerConfig = {
+    s3 = {
+      s3config = "${cfg.s3Config.bucketName}:${cfg.s3Config.objectKey}";
+      s3configprefix = cfg.s3Config.configPrefix;
+    };
+    zookeeper = {
+      zkconfigconnect = concatStringsSep "," cfg.zkConfigConnect;
+      zkconfigexhibitorpath = cfg.zkConfigExhibitorPath;
+      zkconfigpollms = toString cfg.zkConfigPollMs;
+      zkconfigretry = "${toString cfg.zkConfigRetry.sleepMs}:${toString cfg.zkConfigRetry.retryQuantity}";
+      zkconfigzpath = cfg.zkConfigZPath;
+      zkconfigexhibitorport = toString cfg.zkConfigExhibitorPort; # NB: This might be null
+    };
+    file = {
+      fsconfigdir = cfg.fsConfigDir;
+      fsconfiglockprefix = cfg.fsConfigLockPrefix;
+      fsConfigName = fsConfigName;
+    };
+    none = {
+      noneconfigdir = configDir;
+    };
+  };
+  cliOptions = concatStringsSep " " (mapAttrsToList (k: v: "--${k} ${v}") (filterAttrs (k: v: v != null && v != "") (cliOptionsCommon //
+               cliOptionsPerConfig."${cfg.configType}" //
+               s3CommonOptions //
+               optionalAttrs cfg.s3Backup { s3backup = "true"; } //
+               optionalAttrs cfg.fileSystemBackup { filesystembackup = "true"; }
+               )));
+in
+{
+  options = {
+    services.exhibitor = {
+      enable = mkOption {
+        type = types.bool;
+        default = false;
+        description = "
+          Whether to enable the exhibitor server.
+        ";
+      };
+      # See https://github.com/soabase/exhibitor/wiki/Running-Exhibitor for what these mean
+      # General options for any type of config
+      port = mkOption {
+        type = types.int;
+        default = 8080;
+        description = ''
+          The port for exhibitor to listen on and communicate with other exhibitors.
+        '';
+      };
+      baseDir = mkOption {
+        type = types.str;
+        default = "/var/exhibitor";
+        description = ''
+          Baseline directory for exhibitor runtime config.
+        '';
+      };
+      configType = mkOption {
+        type = types.enum [ "file" "s3" "zookeeper" "none" ];
+        description = ''
+          Which configuration type you want to use. Additional config will be
+          required depending on which type you are using.
+        '';
+      };
+      hostname = mkOption {
+        type = types.nullOr types.str;
+        description = ''
+          Hostname to use and advertise
+        '';
+        default = null;
+      };
+      autoManageInstances = mkOption {
+        type = types.bool;
+        description = ''
+          Automatically manage ZooKeeper instances in the ensemble
+        '';
+        default = false;
+      };
+      zkDataDir = mkOption {
+        type = types.str;
+        default = "${cfg.baseDir}/zkData";
+        description = ''
+          The Zookeeper data directory
+        '';
+      };
+      zkLogDir = mkOption {
+        type = types.path;
+        default = "${cfg.baseDir}/zkLogs";
+        description = ''
+          The Zookeeper logs directory
+        '';
+      };
+      extraConf = mkOption {
+        type = types.str;
+        default = "";
+        description = ''
+          Extra Exhibitor configuration to put in the ZooKeeper config file.
+        '';
+      };
+      zkExtraCfg = mkOption {
+        type = types.str;
+        default = ''initLimit=5&syncLimit=2&tickTime=2000'';
+        description = ''
+          Extra options to pass into Zookeeper
+        '';
+      };
+      zkClientPort = mkOption {
+        type = types.int;
+        default = 2181;
+        description = ''
+          Zookeeper client port
+        '';
+      };
+      zkConnectPort = mkOption {
+        type = types.int;
+        default = 2888;
+        description = ''
+          The port to use for followers to talk to each other.
+        '';
+      };
+      zkElectionPort = mkOption {
+        type = types.int;
+        default = 3888;
+        description = ''
+          The port for Zookeepers to use for leader election.
+        '';
+      };
+      zkCleanupPeriod = mkOption {
+        type = types.int;
+        default = 0;
+        description = ''
+          How often (in milliseconds) to run the Zookeeper log cleanup task.
+        '';
+      };
+      zkServersSpec = mkOption {
+        type = types.listOf types.str;
+        default = [];
+        description = ''
+          Zookeeper server spec for all servers in the ensemble.
+        '';
+        example = [ "S:1:zk1.example.com" "S:2:zk2.example.com" "S:3:zk3.example.com" "O:4:zk-observer.example.com" ];
+      };
+
+      # Backup options
+      s3Backup = mkOption {
+        type = types.bool;
+        default = false;
+        description = ''
+          Whether to enable backups to S3
+        '';
+      };
+      fileSystemBackup = mkOption {
+        type = types.bool;
+        default = false;
+        description = ''
+          Enables file system backup of ZooKeeper log files
+        '';
+      };
+
+      # Options for using zookeeper configType
+      zkConfigConnect = mkOption {
+        type = types.listOf types.str;
+        description = ''
+          The initial connection string for ZooKeeper shared config storage
+        '';
+        example = ["host1:2181" "host2:2181"];
+      };
+      zkConfigExhibitorPath = mkOption {
+        type = types.string;
+        description = ''
+          If the ZooKeeper shared config is also running Exhibitor, the URI path for the REST call
+        '';
+        default = "/";
+      };
+      zkConfigExhibitorPort = mkOption {
+        type = types.nullOr types.int;
+        description = ''
+          If the ZooKeeper shared config is also running Exhibitor, the port that
+          Exhibitor is listening on. IMPORTANT: if this value is not set it implies
+          that Exhibitor is not being used on the ZooKeeper shared config.
+        '';
+      };
+      zkConfigPollMs = mkOption {
+        type = types.int;
+        description = ''
+          The period in ms to check for changes in the config ensemble
+        '';
+        default = 10000;
+      };
+      zkConfigRetry = mkOption {
+        type = types.submodule {
+          options = {
+            sleepMs = mkOption {
+              type = types.int;
+            };
+            retryQuantity = mkOption {
+              type = types.int;
+            };
+          };
+        };
+        description = ''
+          The retry values to use
+        '';
+        default = { sleepMs = 1000; retryQuantity = 3; };
+      };
+      zkConfigZPath = mkOption {
+        type = types.str;
+        description = ''
+          The base ZPath that Exhibitor should use
+        '';
+        example = "/exhibitor/config";
+      };
+
+      # Config options for s3 configType
+      s3Config = mkOption {
+        type = types.submodule {
+          options = {
+            bucketName = mkOption {
+              type = types.str;
+              description = ''
+                Bucket name to store config
+              '';
+            };
+            objectKey = mkOption {
+              type = types.str;
+              description = ''
+                S3 key name to store the config
+              '';
+            };
+            configPrefix = mkOption {
+              type = types.str;
+              description = ''
+                When using AWS S3 shared config files, the prefix to use for values such as locks
+              '';
+              default = "exhibitor-";
+            };
+          };
+        };
+      };
+
+      # The next two are used for either s3backup or s3 configType
+      s3Credentials = mkOption {
+        type = types.nullOr types.path;
+        description = ''
+          Optional credentials to use for s3backup or s3config. Argument is the path
+          to an AWS credential properties file with two properties:
+          com.netflix.exhibitor.s3.access-key-id and com.netflix.exhibitor.s3.access-secret-key
+        '';
+        default = null;
+      };
+      s3Region = mkOption {
+        type = types.nullOr types.str;
+        description = ''
+          Optional region for S3 calls
+        '';
+        default = null;
+      };
+
+      # Config options for file config type
+      fsConfigDir = mkOption {
+        type = types.path;
+        description = ''
+          Directory to store Exhibitor properties (cannot be used with s3config).
+          Exhibitor uses file system locks so you can specify a shared location
+          so as to enable complete ensemble management.
+        '';
+      };
+      fsConfigLockPrefix = mkOption {
+        type = types.str;
+        description = ''
+          A prefix for a locking mechanism used in conjunction with fsconfigdir
+        '';
+        default = "exhibitor-lock-";
+      };
+      fsConfigName = mkOption {
+        type = types.str;
+        description = ''
+          The name of the file to store config in
+        '';
+        default = "exhibitor.properties";
+      };
+    };
+  };
+
+  config = mkIf cfg.enable {
+    systemd.services.exhibitor = {
+      description = "Exhibitor Daemon";
+      wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
+      after = [ "network.target" ];
+      environment = {
+        ZOO_LOG_DIR = cfg.baseDir;
+      };
+      serviceConfig = {
+        /***
+          Exhibitor is a bit un-nixy. It wants to present to you a user interface in order to
+          mutate the configuration of both itself and ZooKeeper, and to coordinate changes
+          among the members of the Zookeeper ensemble. I'm going for a different approach here,
+          which is to manage all the configuration via nix and have it write out the configuration
+          files that exhibitor will use, and to reduce the amount of inter-exhibitor orchestration.
+        ***/
+        ExecStart = ''
+          ${pkgs.exhibitor}/bin/startExhibitor.sh ${cliOptions}
+        '';
+        User = "zookeeper";
+        PermissionsStartOnly = true;
+      };
+      # This is a bit wonky, but the reason for this is that Exhibitor tries to write to
+      # ${cfg.baseDir}/zookeeper/bin/../conf/zoo.cfg
+      # I want everything but the conf directory to be in the immutable nix store, and I want defaults
+      # from the nix store
+      # If I symlink the bin directory in, then bin/../ will resolve to the parent of the symlink in the
+      # immutable nix store. Bind mounting a writable conf over the existing conf might work, but it gets very
+      # messy with trying to copy the existing out into a mutable store.
+      # Another option is to try to patch upstream exhibitor, but the current package just pulls down the
+      # prebuild JARs off of Maven, rather than building them ourselves, as Maven support in Nix isn't
+      # very mature. So, it seems like a reasonable compromise is to just copy out of the immutable store
+      # just before starting the service, so we're running binaries from the immutable store, but we work around
+      # Exhibitor's desire to mutate its current installation.
+      preStart = ''
+        mkdir -m 0700 -p ${cfg.baseDir}/zookeeper
+        # Not doing a chown -R to keep the base ZK files owned by root
+        chown zookeeper ${cfg.baseDir} ${cfg.baseDir}/zookeeper
+        cp -Rf ${pkgs.zookeeper}/* ${cfg.baseDir}/zookeeper
+        chown -R zookeeper ${cfg.baseDir}/zookeeper/conf
+        chmod -R u+w ${cfg.baseDir}/zookeeper/conf
+      '';
+    };
+    users.extraUsers = singleton {
+      name = "zookeeper";
+      uid = config.ids.uids.zookeeper;
+      description = "Zookeeper daemon user";
+      home = cfg.baseDir;
+    };
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/exhibitor/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/exhibitor/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..445f52e360bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/servers/exhibitor/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+{ fetchFromGitHub, buildMaven, maven, jdk, makeWrapper, stdenv, ... }:
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "exhibitor-${version}";
+  version = "1.5.6";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "soabase";
+    repo = "exhibitor";
+    sha256 = "07vikhkldxy51jbpy3jgva6wz75jksch6bjd6dqkagfgqd6baw45";
+    rev = "5fcdb411d06e8638c2380f7acb72a8a6909739cd";
+  };
+  mavenDependenciesSha256 = "00r69n9hwvrn5cbhxklx7w00sjmqvcxs7gvhbm150ggy7bc865qv";
+  # This is adapted from https://github.com/volth/nixpkgs/blob/6aa470dfd57cae46758b62010a93c5ff115215d7/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/hadoop/default.nix#L20-L32
+  fetchedMavenDeps = stdenv.mkDerivation {
+    name = "exhibitor-${version}-maven-deps";
+    inherit src nativeBuildInputs;
+    buildPhase = ''
+      cd $pomFileDir;
+      while timeout --kill-after=21m 20m mvn package -Dmaven.repo.local=$out/.m2; [ $? = 124 ]; do
+        echo "maven hangs while downloading :("
+      done
+    '';
+    installPhase = ''find $out/.m2 -type f \! -regex '.+\(pom\|jar\|xml\|sha1\)' -delete''; # delete files with lastModified timestamps inside
+    outputHashAlgo = "sha256";
+    outputHashMode = "recursive";
+    outputHash = mavenDependenciesSha256;
+  };
+
+  # The purpose of this is to fetch the jar file out of public Maven and use Maven
+  # to build a monolithic, standalone jar, rather than build everything from source
+  # (given the state of Maven support in Nix). We're not actually building any java
+  # source here.
+  pomFileDir = "exhibitor-standalone/src/main/resources/buildscripts/standalone/maven";
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ maven ];
+  buildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
+  buildPhase = ''
+      cd $pomFileDir
+      mvn package --offline -Dmaven.repo.local=$(cp -dpR ${fetchedMavenDeps}/.m2 ./ && chmod +w -R .m2 && pwd)/.m2
+  '';
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/soabase/exhibitor";
+    description = "ZooKeeper co-process for instance monitoring, backup/recovery, cleanup and visualization";
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
+  };
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/bin
+    mkdir -p $out/share/java
+    mv target/$name.jar $out/share/java/
+    makeWrapper ${jdk}/bin/java $out/bin/startExhibitor.sh --add-flags "-jar $out/share/java/$name.jar" --suffix PATH : ${stdenv.lib.makeBinPath [ jdk ]}
+  '';
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/zookeeper/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/zookeeper/default.nix
index 16807a6571cd..b3a9ad444849 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/zookeeper/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/zookeeper/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, jre, makeWrapper, bash }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, jre, makeWrapper, bash, coreutils }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "zookeeper-${version}";
@@ -17,12 +17,15 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     mkdir -p $out
     cp -R conf docs lib ${name}.jar $out
     mkdir -p $out/bin
-    cp -R bin/{zkCli,zkCleanup,zkEnv}.sh $out/bin
+    cp -R bin/{zkCli,zkCleanup,zkEnv,zkServer}.sh $out/bin
     for i in $out/bin/{zkCli,zkCleanup}.sh; do
       wrapProgram $i \
         --set JAVA_HOME "${jre}" \
         --prefix PATH : "${bash}/bin"
     done
+    substituteInPlace $out/bin/zkServer.sh \
+        --replace /bin/echo ${coreutils}/bin/echo \
+        --replace "/usr/bin/env bash" ${bash}/bin/bash
     chmod -x $out/bin/zkEnv.sh
 
     mkdir -p $out/share/zooinspector
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index cca84222050a..dfbcf5d1f596 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -11048,6 +11048,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   ejabberd = callPackage ../servers/xmpp/ejabberd { };
 
+  exhibitor = callPackage ../servers/exhibitor { };
+
   prosody = callPackage ../servers/xmpp/prosody {
     lua5 = lua5_1;
     inherit (lua51Packages) luasocket luasec luaexpat luafilesystem luabitop luaevent luazlib;