Capacity utilization within Power Automate (preview)
The capacity utilization page provides you with insights into how your hosted robotic process automation (RPA) capacity, process capacity, or legacy unattended RPA capacity are being used within your environment. Within the Power Automate platform, each capacity is based on a purchased add-on or license. It's assigned to the environment and allows specific Power Automate objects to carry out specific operations.
Important
- This is a preview feature.
- Preview features aren’t meant for production use and may have restricted functionality. These features are available before an official release so that customers can get early access and provide feedback.
You manage the following capacity within the capacity utilization page:
| Capacity | Consuming Power Automate object | Consumption mode | Operation enabled |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hosted Process capacity | Hosted machine | Autoallocation | To be created, each hosted machine requires a Hosted Process capacity allocated. |
| Hosted Process capacity | Hosted machine group | Manual allocation of committed bots | Every Hosted Process capacity committed to a hosted machine group guarantees the availability of a bot during autoscaling. |
| Process capacity (or legacy unattended RPA capacity) | Machine | Autoallocation | Every capacity allocated to a machine allows it to carry out another unattended desktop flow run simultaneously. |
| Process capacity | Cloud flow | Manual allocation | Every capacity allocated to a cloud flow enables it, along with all its associated cloud flows, to use premium connectors and execute actions up to a daily limit of 250k Power Platform Requests (stackable limit). |
Note
Process capacity and unattended RPA capacity (legacy) have been combined in a single pool. They can seamlessly be utilized by machines.
Capacity utilization overview page
The capacity utilization page offers an overview of the environment-assigned capacities. It details their usage and provides suggestions and insights for more efficient management of automation and the desktop infrastructure.
The overview page provides insights for Hosted Process capacity, process capacity, or legacy unattended RPA capacity including:
- A breakdown of each capacity utilization (user's consumption / others' consumption / capacity available / capacity in overage).
- Insights and recommendation on compliance issues.
The two pie charts underscore the point that, within a given environment, capacity is a limited resource that users are sharing, necessitating prioritization of use cases.
Per-capacity details pages
Hosted Process capacity utilization
Hosted Process capacity allows you to run desktop flows with zero infrastructure. It's allocated to hosted machines or committed to hosted machine groups.
Process (or legacy unattended RPA) capacity utilization
Process capacity or legacy unattended RPA capacity are needed to run desktop flows in unattended mode. Every capacity allocated to a machine allows it to carry out another unattended desktop flow run simultaneously. It can also be allocated to a cloud flow to license it independently from user license.