Question
It's been two hours since my data sync updated in Explore. The documentation says it should sync every hour on my plan. Why didn't that happen yet?
Answer
Each new data sync to Explore begins one hour after the most recent sync ended. The data sync time is also randomized within the hour. This means that in some cases a single data sync could take more than two hours to complete. If the previous sync also took a similar amount of time, it could result in data taking up to four hours to appear in Explore.
For example, if a ticket is updated during a sync:
- At 1 pm, the sync commences.
- At 1:30 pm, the ticket field value is updated.
- At 3 pm, the sync completes however the ticket field value is blank in Explore because the ticket was updated during the sync.
- At 3:15 pm, the second sync commences.
- At 5:15 pm, the second sync completes and the ticket field value is now visible in Explore.
The last updated timestamp listed in the query builder refers to the end of the last data sync. For example, if the timestamp in a query shows that it was last updated 30 minutes ago, this means the data from 2 hours ago was last completed at that time. The data from updates that occurred within the last 30 minutes, will appear in the next data sync.