diff --git a/t/t7527-builtin-fsmonitor.sh b/t/t7527-builtin-fsmonitor.sh
index d2f1f1097e..55a73b3e93 100755
--- a/t/t7527-builtin-fsmonitor.sh
+++ b/t/t7527-builtin-fsmonitor.sh
@@ -408,9 +408,8 @@ move_directory() {
 # ensure we are getting the OS notifications and do not try to confirm what
 # is reported by `git status`.
 #
-# We run a simple query after modifying the filesystem just to introduce
-# a bit of a delay so that the trace logging from the daemon has time to
-# get flushed to disk.
+# We use retry_grep to handle races between the daemon writing events
+# to the trace file and our check.
 #
 # We `reset` and `clean` at the bottom of each test (and before stopping the
 # daemon) because these commands might implicitly restart the daemon.
@@ -422,6 +421,24 @@ clean_up_repo_and_stop_daemon () {
 	rm -f .git/trace
 }
 
+# Retry a grep up to RETRY_TIMEOUT times until it succeeds.
+#
+RETRY_TIMEOUT=5
+
+retry_grep () {
+	nr_tries_left=$RETRY_TIMEOUT
+	until grep "$1" "$2" 2>/dev/null
+	do
+		if test $nr_tries_left -eq 0
+		then
+			grep "$1" "$2"
+			return
+		fi
+		nr_tries_left=$(($nr_tries_left - 1))
+		sleep 1
+	done
+}
+
 test_expect_success 'edit some files' '
 	test_when_finished clean_up_repo_and_stop_daemon &&
 
@@ -429,12 +446,10 @@ test_expect_success 'edit some files' '
 
 	edit_files &&
 
-	test-tool fsmonitor-client query --token 0 &&
-
-	grep "^event: dir1/modified$"  .git/trace &&
-	grep "^event: dir2/modified$"  .git/trace &&
-	grep "^event: modified$"       .git/trace &&
-	grep "^event: dir1/untracked$" .git/trace
+	retry_grep "^event: dir1/modified$" .git/trace &&
+	retry_grep "^event: dir2/modified$"  .git/trace &&
+	retry_grep "^event: modified$"       .git/trace &&
+	retry_grep "^event: dir1/untracked$" .git/trace
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'create some files' '
@@ -444,11 +459,9 @@ test_expect_success 'create some files' '
 
 	create_files &&
 
-	test-tool fsmonitor-client query --token 0 &&
-
-	grep "^event: dir1/new$" .git/trace &&
-	grep "^event: dir2/new$" .git/trace &&
-	grep "^event: new$"      .git/trace
+	retry_grep "^event: dir1/new$" .git/trace &&
+	retry_grep "^event: dir2/new$" .git/trace &&
+	retry_grep "^event: new$"      .git/trace
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'delete some files' '
@@ -458,11 +471,9 @@ test_expect_success 'delete some files' '
 
 	delete_files &&
 
-	test-tool fsmonitor-client query --token 0 &&
-
-	grep "^event: dir1/delete$" .git/trace &&
-	grep "^event: dir2/delete$" .git/trace &&
-	grep "^event: delete$"      .git/trace
+	retry_grep "^event: dir1/delete$" .git/trace &&
+	retry_grep "^event: dir2/delete$" .git/trace &&
+	retry_grep "^event: delete$"      .git/trace
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'rename some files' '
@@ -472,14 +483,12 @@ test_expect_success 'rename some files' '
 
 	rename_files &&
 
-	test-tool fsmonitor-client query --token 0 &&
-
-	grep "^event: dir1/rename$"  .git/trace &&
-	grep "^event: dir2/rename$"  .git/trace &&
-	grep "^event: rename$"       .git/trace &&
-	grep "^event: dir1/renamed$" .git/trace &&
-	grep "^event: dir2/renamed$" .git/trace &&
-	grep "^event: renamed$"      .git/trace
+	retry_grep "^event: dir1/rename$" .git/trace &&
+	retry_grep "^event: dir2/rename$"  .git/trace &&
+	retry_grep "^event: rename$"       .git/trace &&
+	retry_grep "^event: dir1/renamed$" .git/trace &&
+	retry_grep "^event: dir2/renamed$" .git/trace &&
+	retry_grep "^event: renamed$"      .git/trace
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'rename directory' '
@@ -489,10 +498,8 @@ test_expect_success 'rename directory' '
 
 	mv dirtorename dirrenamed &&
 
-	test-tool fsmonitor-client query --token 0 &&
-
-	grep "^event: dirtorename/*$" .git/trace &&
-	grep "^event: dirrenamed/*$"  .git/trace
+	retry_grep "^event: dirtorename/*$" .git/trace &&
+	retry_grep "^event: dirrenamed/*$"  .git/trace
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'file changes to directory' '
@@ -502,10 +509,8 @@ test_expect_success 'file changes to directory' '
 
 	file_to_directory &&
 
-	test-tool fsmonitor-client query --token 0 &&
-
-	grep "^event: delete$"     .git/trace &&
-	grep "^event: delete/new$" .git/trace
+	retry_grep "^event: delete$" .git/trace &&
+	retry_grep "^event: delete/new$" .git/trace
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'directory changes to a file' '
@@ -515,9 +520,7 @@ test_expect_success 'directory changes to a file' '
 
 	directory_to_file &&
 
-	test-tool fsmonitor-client query --token 0 &&
-
-	grep "^event: dir1$" .git/trace
+	retry_grep "^event: dir1$" .git/trace
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'rapid nested directory creation' '