Power BI -when a data driven alert is triggered

I have an alert in Power BI. That works fine notifying me when a threshold for a card visual moves greater than 0. I want this to send an email to a group whenever that alert is triggered (1x per day but I don't know what time as it is contingent on when the power bi dataset refreshes). I am unable to configure the alert to send an email to a group so I had to go to power automate.

In Power automate, I selected the 'when a data driver alert is triggered'. I read the documentation on this flow and it is slightly outdated. There is an option now "how often do you want to check for items". This is not in the documentation and it adds confusion to the process. I don't really want it to check since the trigger should be that the alert itself was triggered. This happens 1x per day as is.

If I set the "how often do I want it to check" to hourly, will it check every hour and see that the alert was triggered and continue sending emails? I believe so. I do not want that. I just want it to send the email when the alert is triggered.

Hope that makes sense. I think how this flow was setup was simple and straightforward. Now, it is confusing.

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