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.

If this topic does not help you to resolve the agent installation or starting issue, contact the IBM Instana support team.

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