Inconsistent Number of Power Platform Requests

[sdedic]

Hi all,

I have a flow which is triggered when an HTTP request is received. Requests to that endpoint (flow) are being sent 3 times/minute throughout the day (24h). My current licensing plan allows me to consume 40000 Power Platform requests per day - which includes both Dataverse and Power Automate requests.

However, these requests (especially Dataverse requests) are not consistent even though nothing is changed on the flow nor the requests towards that endpoint have been increased since everything is automated.

Here is the table that shows request limits and inconsistence in numbers:

Can anyone explain how something like this can happen in such big numbers when nothing has been changed and the number of actions inside the flow are always the same?

Thank you.

Best

[FLMike]

@sdedic 

There is no way for us to tell you. 

a) we cannot see your flows

b) we dont have the internal Microsoft calculation formulas that they use.

I wish we did 🙂 but bleh we do not. I would definitely call them and ask them to look into it if you feel there is an issue or incorrect billing. They may have increased action counts or there have been changes to your flows you dont know of. Or it could be that your flow is interacting with Dataverse and there is more data, so more loops etc, which will increase.

So even if the flow hasn't changed, if you are looping through data, it will go up over time, based on that alone.

As this is the answer I would appreciate if you could mark it as such and maybe a thumbs up.

If you like my answer, I would really appreciate if you please Mark it as Resolved, and give it a thumbs up, so it can help others

Cheers

Thank You
Michael Gernaey MCT | MCSE | MCP | Self-Contractor| Ex-Microsoft
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[sdedic]

Hi @FLMike,

Thank you for your reply.

a) we cannot see your flows

So, here is the flow that consumes all the requests I posted in the table above:

Though there are three Dataverse List Rows actions inside the flow, all three are filtered to retrieve only one result from respective table that matches the value received from the request in the trigger. Those three tables have in total 13 rows (Sessions table 4, Shadow table 5, Device table 4 rows). In addition, the complete solution, including this flow, is in testing phase and no new data is being added, nor current is being removed. There are always 13 rows in total in these three tables, and no other flows, apps, users access these tables and data in any sense.

Since I am the only one who can access flow, I can guarantee no changes were made in those days when requests increased.

b) we dont have the internal Microsoft calculation formulas that they use.

Hm... Don't you think it is strange that these numbers fluctuate almost the double and no data has been added to Dataverse tables?

I agree it is the best idea to call MS support and see if they have any relevant explanation for this.

Thanks once again for your response!

[FLMike]

hi @sdedic 

Oh yes I definitely think its weird. So unless your flow count went up a ton or some weird thing is happening 😞 I dunno.

I do hope they can help you and make it right.