Currently I'm working on Instana Analytics. I have URL in form:

https://instana.io/#/.........timeline.ws=172800000&timeline.to=1749506400000&timeline.fm=1749506400000&timeline.ar=false

My question is how work "timeline" in this link.

I was thinking that maybe that is Unix Timestamp, but I don't understand how it work. 

`timeline.ws` is proper Unix Timestamp, but it points to 1975. `timeline.to` and `timeline.fm` is too long for Unix Timestamp.

It's like we have `timeline.ws` which point to some date in the past and `timeline.to` and `.fm` is adding time to `timeline.ws`?

But in what form are `timeline.to` and `.fm`? It's no Unix Timestamp because it's too long.

I would like to understand, based on what this timeline is working. I would like to write properly value to this timelines field and this link would open Analytics in proper range time in Instana.

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Michał Kukla
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Hi Michał,
It can be tricky at the beginning if you haven't read things from the Instana OpenAPI but here is an example based on your URL parameters:

timeline.ws = windowSize

timeline.fm = From

timeline.to = To

integer <int64>
Timestamp since Unix Epoch in milliseconds of the end of the time window.

Your to is the same as from: Monday 9 June 2025 22:00:00

timeline.ar

Is the "Live button" autorefresh.

In your URL, you need to define your from and to properly to get the data from the timeframe you want.

I hope this helps.

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Israel Ochoa
CSM Architect - NCEE Market
IBM
Stockholm
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