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joshlowit1
4 years ago
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Complex DataPoint for a Report

Hi Team, I am wanting to create a report for TotalIOPS which on a dashboard I have is DiskReadsPerSec+DiskWritesPerSec on the dashboard widget. I would like to create a custom datapoint that ...
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    joshlowit1
    4 years ago

    I have answered my own question, I was trying to put the expression in a DataSource that did not have the DiskReadsPerSec (I was using a DataSource that had been cloned and applied to a specific client). When I added the expression to the built in DataSource that has the correct DataPoints then it did not give the error. 

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joshlowit1
4 years ago

I may understand why it is not working, just would like confirmation. So the complex datapoint must be in the same datasource as the other datapoints that I am using in the expression, correct? Otherwise I would get the error they do not exist because the complex datapoint wouldn't be able to "read" data from other datasources, correct?