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How to count the number of action requests for a parent and a child flow

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Hello.
I am using Power Automate and would like to know how to count the number of action requests for a parent flow and a child flow.

Conditions:
・The upper limit for the number of action requests is 10,000 per flow.
・The parent flow invokes the child flows.
・Each Flow consumes the following actions.
Parent Flow : 8,000 action requests
Child Flow : 3,000 action requests

If a parent flow is executed under the conditions, is it judged that the parent flow has consumed 11,000 actions?
Or is it judged that the parent flow consumed 8,000 but the child flow consumed 3,000 and is not subject to throttling?

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Hi @TK14

Is this request is one which sends request to dataverse ? - could you confirm ?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/limits-and-config#power-platform-request-limits

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Thank you for your response.

The above action requests are not limited to requests to Dataverse, but include all types of actions.
By “all types,” I mean connectors, HTTP, built-in actions, etc.
（By the way, my flow accesses Teams and SharePoint）

I would appreciate it if you could point out if my understanding is wrong.

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Hi @TK14

I don't think it would be limited to workflow level - may be based on duration of usage ?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/api-request-limits-allocations#licensed-user-request-limits

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Thank you for your response.

My understanding is that we are currently in a transition period.
So I believe that other restrictions are being applied than the official restrictions.
I am referring to the following information.（My license is Office 365）

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/api-request-limits-allocations#request-limits-in-power-automate

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Hi @TK14

Thanks for sharing documentation - got to learn something new !
From the documentation - they have mentioned during transition period - limits are applied at flow level, official limits are applied at user level, so as per your question - if it is in transition period - request are considered per flow - so may be it may have taken 11,000 request for your case of child+parent flows.

@abm abm - correct me if i am wrong

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Thank you for your response.

The only real way to know is to try it myself, but I think it is safe to assume that the sum of the parent flow plus the child flow counts as one flow action, as you say.It is safer that way.
(I could not try to test this because the flow for my work is already running in my environment)

Thank you very much.

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