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How to increase the trigger recurrence interval from 1 minute to 5 minutes in a flow

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I have an automated cloud flow that has the trigger as "when a file is created in OneDrive". As per the Power Automate Premium plan, I understand that the trigger checks for new file created every one minute (the trigger recurrence interval of one minute). However this uses up a significant number of requests (out of the max 40,000 permitted in a day). As I don't expect files to be added this frequently, I want to increase the recurrence interval to maybe once every 5 minutes or 10 minutes.

The standard editor does not provide me such an option, and switching to the new editor seems to allow me to specify this, but then it creates some new error in one of the actions in the flow, so I am unable to achieve this. Can anyone provide a solution.

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wskinnermctc 6,519 Moderator on at

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Can you show a reference to where you see the 40,000 limit per day?

I thought the limits were on the Trigger itself. Like in theory, you could create 40,000 files and then have 40,000 triggers. But 40,001 file that was created would not trigger that day. It would wait until the next day.

I'm not a license expert, and not sure if I'm correct about this. That's why I wanted to read what you were reading and see if we interpret it the same. Can you provide a link to the information that shows the request limits that you are referring?

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lbendlin 8,474 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Limits of automated, scheduled, and instant flows - Power Automate | Microsoft Learn

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wskinnermctc 6,519 Moderator on at

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Looking at Limits of Runtime Endpoint Requests

Invoke calls per 5 minutes: 4,500 for Low; 45,000 for all others - You can distribute workload across more than one flow as necessary.

I read this as you can Trigger a flow 45,000 times in 5 minutes.

If this was for the account limits, then why would it tell you to distribute the workload across other flows? Those would go to the same daily count, so that wouldn't help.

Unless someone else who knows better comes in this thread, I would think it is on the Trigger itself and not on the background interval checks.

Maybe even change the title of this post to Premium Account Request Limits - Trigger Interval Counts or something like that. If a person who is more knowledgeable about accounts might see it in the forum.

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DTV 21 on at

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Check this link - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/power-automate-licensing/types
As I understand it, if my flow checks the OneDrive folder once every minute (to check whether a new file is created there), then it counts as one service request on the power platform - hence wanted to find a way to change that to maybe once every 5 minutes or 10 minutes, to reduce the number of service requests generated by my flow.

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Matthy79 4,180 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Hello @DTV

This is not the case. If it would work this way we all would have a lot more troubles with all the limits because we use triggers for Sharepoint, Dataverse, Onedrive, SFTP, and lots more

If you are unsure about your requests and limits, just go to the admin center (Downloadable Reports | Power Platform admin center (microsoft.com)), create a new report and look at the data. You will find the request for each user (and also the limits) because 40.000 is just a number. We also have other users that can request a different amount (for example 0, 8.000, 40.000, 46.000, 48.000, 86.000).

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DTV 21 on at

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I did download the report as advised, and see "entitled quantity" mentioned as 48,000 per day. What I will do now is leave my flow turned on, without actually adding any files, so tomorrow same time I can see how many power automate requests show consumed.

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wskinnermctc 6,519 Moderator on at

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@DTV that's a good experiment, want to see the results when you are done. It'll be good info for everyone else to know.

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I kept the flow turned on but did not add any files, apparently that did not consume any Power Automate requests.

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wskinnermctc 6,519 Moderator on at

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@DTV Thanks for the update! Good to know for sure that is how it works, I never really knew. Thanks for testing that.

You should mark your own response as the solution.

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VitorM 8 on at

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Hey Guys,

How can I increase the recourrence time? Apparently it allows changes but does not save.

5 minutes is a very short time and my flow sends the attachment along with the email...

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