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Hi everyone,

For some time I have been working on a bot that activates a theme that then does a few things and then returns the output, last week it took about 8 seconds to do on average, but after a bit of testing with another theme and then enabeling the theme again after testig, now the theme takes from 35-1min to respond both in teams and also copilot test envoirement, changes are minor and shouldn't affect performance.

The flow that takes the most on average takes 6 seconds and the other flow after that about 2 second, yet at the end I wait for 30 seconds for a response, how come? How can I see the state and time of actions from themes?

Thanks

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Calling actions from Copilot Studio

Hi @CU31070922-5,

Copilot Studio does not expsoe detailed timing per theme step, one of the main reasons users complain. Copilot Studio’s orchestration layer might be adding hidden wait time due to theme processing, throtling, or internal evaluation.

Hope you have confirmed the workflow timing (6+2 secs) from run history timestamps.

You can’t view per-step timing for themes today, but you can use flow run history + simplify the theme + recreate it to reclaim performance.
Remove steps temporarily, strip the theme to a single action, test it, and gradually re-add actions to find the bottleneck. This is the only option to identify the issue that is taking time.

Watch for throttling
If your environment is calling:

SharePoint
Dataverse
External APIs
Office 365 connectors

you may be hitting service protection delays even without visible errors.

References:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/power-platform/power-automate/flow-run-issues/troubleshoot-slow-running-flows

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