Jira API: Ranking changes not immediately reflected in JQL search results

[Illia Drachuk]

Hi everyone,

We’ve noticed a delay when updating and retrieving issue rankings via the API.

Specifically, after calling rest/agile/1.0/issue/rank to change an issue’s rank and receiving a successful response, we immediately call rest/api/3/search/jql to fetch the updated list of issues ordered by rank. However, the updated ranking is not reflected right away. It typically takes around 3–5 seconds before the ranking changes appear in the query results.

Is this expected behavior? If so, is there a recommended way to ensure we retrieve the updated ranking immediately after making the change?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[Gor Greyan]

Hi @Illia Drachuk

Thanks for the question.

When you update ranking via the Agile API rest/agile/1.0/issue/rank,  the change is applied immediately for Agile views. However, JQL search relies on Jira’s search index, which is eventually consistent in Cloud.

That is why there can be a short delay before the updated ranking is reflected in JQL results.

It’s a known characteristic of Jira Cloud search that updates are processed first and then propagated to the index asynchronously.

My suggestion is to add a small delay before querying it back.