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How does flow cope when a lot of actions are excecuted?
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Dec 14, 2022 7:00 AM

How does flow cope when a lot of actions are excecuted?

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Considerations for Power Automate cloud flows that are processing thousands of rows worth of data: parallelism, throttling limits, API call consumption.

As great as Power Automate cloud flow is, it has its own challenges. For example, in a situation where a lot of rows are processed and/or operations are performed (by flow’s standards) quickly.

Let us get to the bottom of these problems this time. We’ll look at a flow I have presented in my personal blog earlier. This flow sends feedback requests from employees to the people they mainly work with.

The solution works well in a small organization (50 people), but what happens when the organization has 2,500 employees?

  • Run a loop side by side (max. 50)
  • Child flow – Collect feedback from one person
  • Main workflow
  • Bottlenecks to consider
  • Paging
  • Connection throttling
  • Power Platform Requests
  • Summary

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