Installing the host agent on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Checking the agent prerequisites

For a complete list of the Instana agent prerequisites, see Checking the agent prerequisites on Kubernetes. In addition to the current list of supported operating systems, the Instana agent for Amazon EKS is also supported on Bottlerocket OS AMI.

Install and run the host agent

To install and run the host agent, see Install by using the operator.

Checking the status of the host agent

After you install the host agent, you can check the status of the host agent in the Instana UI or on the host. For more information, see Checking the status of the host agent.

Additional Kubernetes configuration

For information about additional Kubernetes configuration, see the following sections in our Kubernetes docs:

• RBAC
• PodSecurityPolicy
• Pod Security Admission
• Configure network access for monitored applications
• Monitor master nodes
• Monitor Kubernetes NGINX Ingress
• Secrets
• Report to multiple backends

Troubleshooting agent deployment

If installing the agent is not successful at first, you can check log messages and troubleshooting tips. If this troubleshooting section does not answer the questions you have, contact the IBM Instana support team with information about your experience, so that we can help you and update our documentation accordingly.

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