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  • 1.  How work timeline in URL to Instana Analytics

    Posted Wed June 11, 2025 09:39 AM

    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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  • 2.  RE: How work timeline in URL to Instana Analytics

    Posted Thu June 12, 2025 04:45 AM

    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

    integer <int64>
    Size of time window in milliseconds
    For example, your ws is 2 days

    timeline.fm = From

    integer <int64>
    The start of the timestamp expressed in Unix epoch time in milliseconds.
    Your fm in GMT is: Monday 9 June 2025 22:00:00

    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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    IBM
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