diff --git a/client/app/scripts/actions/app-actions.js b/client/app/scripts/actions/app-actions.js
index 300c4bbfe..d566f1acd 100644
--- a/client/app/scripts/actions/app-actions.js
+++ b/client/app/scripts/actions/app-actions.js
@@ -684,6 +684,8 @@ export function toggleTroubleshootingMenu(ev) {
 
 export function changeInstance() {
   return (dispatch, getState) => {
+    dispatch({ type: ActionTypes.CHANGE_INSTANCE });
+    updateRoute(getState);
     const state = getState();
     getNodesDelta(
       getCurrentTopologyUrl(state),
diff --git a/client/app/scripts/constants/action-types.js b/client/app/scripts/constants/action-types.js
index c56f06286..b20601096 100644
--- a/client/app/scripts/constants/action-types.js
+++ b/client/app/scripts/constants/action-types.js
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ const ACTION_TYPES = [
   'SET_RECEIVED_NODES_DELTA',
   'SORT_ORDER_CHANGED',
   'SET_GRID_MODE',
+  'CHANGE_INSTANCE'
 ];
 
 export default zipObject(ACTION_TYPES, ACTION_TYPES);
diff --git a/client/app/scripts/reducers/__tests__/root-test.js b/client/app/scripts/reducers/__tests__/root-test.js
index f4e80a6c8..b46d8a150 100644
--- a/client/app/scripts/reducers/__tests__/root-test.js
+++ b/client/app/scripts/reducers/__tests__/root-test.js
@@ -192,6 +192,10 @@ describe('RootReducer', () => {
     state: {}
   };
 
+  const ChangeInstanceAction = {
+    type: ActionTypes.CHANGE_INSTANCE
+  };
+
   // Basic tests
 
   it('returns initial state', () => {
@@ -525,4 +529,13 @@ describe('RootReducer', () => {
     nextState = reducer(nextState, action3);
     expect(nextState.getIn(['nodes', 'n1', 'adjacency'])).toBeFalsy();
   });
+  it('removes non-transferrable state values when changing instances', () => {
+    let nextState = initialState;
+    nextState = reducer(nextState, ClickNodeAction);
+    expect(nextState.get('selectedNodeId')).toEqual('n1');
+    expect(nextState.getIn(['nodeDetails', 'n1'])).toBeTruthy();
+    nextState = reducer(nextState, ChangeInstanceAction);
+    expect(nextState.get('selectedNodeId')).toBeFalsy();
+    expect(nextState.getIn(['nodeDetails', 'n1'])).toBeFalsy();
+  });
 });
diff --git a/client/app/scripts/reducers/root.js b/client/app/scripts/reducers/root.js
index 81d686b8b..af83e24d6 100644
--- a/client/app/scripts/reducers/root.js
+++ b/client/app/scripts/reducers/root.js
@@ -721,6 +721,11 @@ export function rootReducer(state = initialState, action) {
       return state.set('showingTroubleshootingMenu', !state.get('showingTroubleshootingMenu'));
     }
 
+    case ActionTypes.CHANGE_INSTANCE: {
+      state = closeAllNodeDetails(state);
+      return state;
+    }
+
     default: {
       return state;
     }
diff --git a/client/package.json b/client/package.json
index dff7cfaf1..51c003ff5 100644
--- a/client/package.json
+++ b/client/package.json
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
     "eslint-plugin-import": "2.2.0",
     "eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y": "2.2.3",
     "eslint-plugin-react": "6.8.0",
+    "expect": "^1.20.2",
     "extract-text-webpack-plugin": "1.0.1",
     "file-loader": "0.9.0",
     "html-webpack-plugin": "2.24.1",