Troubleshooting the Instana agent on Kubernetes

See the solutions to the common issues that are observed on the Instana agent on Kubernetes:

Reinstallation fails

If the reinstallation of the agent fails with the following message, delete the cluster-level objects of the host agent before you reinstall the agent:

installation Instana Agent failed: rendered manifests contain a resource that already exists. Unable to continue with install: ...

For more information about deleting the cluster-level objects, see Uninstalling the agent.

For troubleshooting information that is general to all host agents, see Managing host agents: Troubleshooting.