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Hi All,

I have a Power Automate Cloud Flow that uses the "When a file is created (properties only)" SharePoint trigger, running with a recurrence of once per minute. However this doesn't seem to have any affect on the number of actions or similar in the Usage table unless it triggers, i.e. it's not logging 1440 actions a day if nothing runs. With this in mind, is anyone aware of any limits to recurrence on this style of trigger that I should be aware of? (And any reason not to be checking every 5 seconds?)

I have consulted https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/limits-and-config and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/api-request-limits-allocations but there doesn't appear to be any clear answers on these pages.

Thank you for any assistance you can offer!

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Building flows

Are you are asking about this setting:

It is best to leave it at the default setting. If you have a standard Power Automate license, this is the minimum it can be. I have never had to change it in any flow. Is your flow not triggering fast enough? Checking every minute to see if any new items have been created seems like it would be more than efficient. When you set a recurrence interval for the “When a file is created (properties only)” trigger in Power Automate, it means the flow will check at the specified interval (in your case, every minute) to see if any new files have been created in the SharePoint library and then trigger the flow (one time) for each item added since the last recurrence.