SonarQube helps developers continuously improve the quality and security of both AI-generated and human-written code. It addresses key areas including:
- Code Quality: Ensuring all code meets high standards.
- Code Security: Detecting security risks in code and open source.
- Code Remediation: Fixing issues quickly and modernizing older code using AI.
- Code Orchestration: Protecting the software development lifecycle with monitors and controls.
The SonarQube solution is offered in three forms: SonarQube Server, SonarQube Cloud, and SonarQube for IDE
SonarQube Server
SonarQube Server is a self-managed static code analysis tool that ensures all developer-written and AI-generated code meets the highest coding standards. By integrating with the top DevOps platforms in the CI/CD pipeline, SonarQube Server continuously inspects projects across multiple programming languages, providing immediate quality and security feedback seamlessly within the developer workflow. SonarQube Server’s quality gates become part of the build pipeline to protect codebase health, displaying pass/fail results and preventing substandard code from reaching production.
At its core, SonarQube Server includes a static code analyzer that identifies bugs, security vulnerabilities, hidden secrets, and code smells, uncovering issues early in the SDLC and presenting them in a clear, helpful way for developers to resolve. Developers are guided through issue resolution with precise AI-driven fixes, including details on why the issue is a problem, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and education. SonarQube Server’s powerful real-time dashboards provide actionable insights to dev teams and leadership for monitoring the progress of code health and quality across multiple projects in your portfolio.
With over 6,000 rules, SonarQube Server analyzes 30+ of the most popular programming languages, including dozens of frameworks, and the leading infrastructure as code (IaC) platforms with high accuracy and low false positives.
SonarQube Cloud
SonarQube Cloud is a cloud-based alternative to the SonarQube Server platform. It is a fully managed SaaS solution, improving human-developed and AI-assisted code at scale, offering continuous code quality and security analysis as a service. SonarQube Cloud integrates seamlessly with popular version control and CI/CD platforms such as GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, and Azure DevOps. It provides static code analysis to identify and help remediate issues such as bugs and security vulnerabilities.
SonarQube Cloud enables developers to receive immediate feedback on their code within their development environment, facilitating the maintenance of high-quality code standards, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement in software development projects. It helps produce software that is secure, reliable, and maintainable.
SonarQube for IDE
SonarQube for IDE (formerly Sonarlint), a core component of the SonarQube solution, is a free and open-source IDE plugin, that is a developer's first line of defense to find and fix coding issues in real time. SonarQube for IDE resolves issues in code and provides rich contextual guidance to help developers improve their skills while enhancing their productivity.
Supporting over 25 languages and the most popular IDEs, SonarQube for IDE leverages over 5,000 language-specific Clean Code rules to instantly highlight common coding issues that may lead to, bugs, and vulnerabilities.