Failed to create election: endpoints "instana" is forbidden: User

Problem:

The elector container in the pod is not starting, and you notice these below errors under the

~instana-agent-leader-elector.log file:

F1001 19:53:40.333960 14451 main.go:108] failed to create election: endpoints "instana" is forbidden: User "system:serviceaccount:instana-agent:instana-agent" cannot get endpoints in the namespace "default"

and also under

~instana-agent.log file has this error:

2018-10-01T19:56:51.110+00:00 | ERROR | instana-scheduler-thread-1      | erElectorService | com.instana.sensor-kubernetes - 1.1.32 | Error in communication with leader elector sidecar. Please check if leader-elector sidecar is running
java.net.ConnectException: Failed to connect to localhost/127.0.0.1:42655

Solution:

This could be most likely due to the missing RBAC section (See the additional step for RBAC enabled cluster https://docs.instana.io/quick_start/agent_setup/container/kubernetes/#example-yaml-file ) or the below leader election sidecar section(shortened) is missing or not well formatted (All indention levels only allow two blank spaces):

rules:
resources:
- "endpoints"