# Delay in data being available through GraphQL

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/delay-in-data-being-available-through-graphql/126738>\
**Category:** APIs & Integrations\
**Tags:** contacts\
**Created:** [February 24, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/delay-in-data-being-available-through-graphql/126738 "2025-02-24T18:22:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![JGershgorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@JGershgorin](https://community.hubspot.com/u/JGershgorin)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/delay-in-data-being-available-through-graphql/126738/1 "2025-02-24T18:22:25Z")

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I’m using the Hubspot v3 API to create a contact, and then immediately after contact creation I perform a GraphQL query using the newly created contact email as a search term, but it returns null.  
if I wait 30+ seconds and run the GraphQl query again it appears properly. There’s seems to be some kind of data availability delay. How can I mitigate for this? Right now I’m re-executing the query every 5 seconds for a maximum of 30 seconds attempting to get a non null result but was hoping for a cleaner solution. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Jaycee\_Lewis](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/jaycee_lewis/32/61352_2.png) [@Jaycee\_Lewis](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Jaycee_Lewis)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/delay-in-data-being-available-through-graphql/126738/2 "2025-02-25T17:44:32Z")

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Hi, @JGershgorin 👋 Thanks for the great question. One thing to try is using an exponential back off approach rather than polling at fixed intervals.

Hey @Teun @SteveHTM @Kevin-C, do you have any other thoughts on how to deal with consistency delays when making similar requests?

Thank you very much! — Jaycee

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**Author:** ![DorianMcFarland](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/dorianmcfarland/32/76702_2.png) [@DorianMcFarland](https://community.hubspot.com/u/DorianMcFarland)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/delay-in-data-being-available-through-graphql/126738/3 "2025-05-05T20:40:36Z")

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Hi @JGershgorin We’re experiencing the same delay issue with deals in Member content - did you ever find any more information about this?