Codacy
Static analysis and quality gates for engineering teams.
SonarQube
Continuous code inspection platform with quality gates and clean code enforcement
SonarQube continuously inspects source code, surfaces new issues, and enforces quality gates to help teams maintain clean codebases across languages.
Overview
Highlights
Real‑time detection of new code issues
Configurable Quality Gates for automated quality enforcement
Extensible plugin ecosystem supporting many languages
Integrated web UI with customizable dashboards
Pros
- Comprehensive static analysis across many languages
- Strong community and commercial backing
- Quality Gate mechanism drives consistent standards
- Easy local build and deployment via Gradle
Considerations
- Requires JVM resources; can be heavy for small projects
- Complex configuration may overwhelm beginners
- UI development split across separate repo adds setup steps
- Community support is forum‑based, no guaranteed response time
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Fit guide
Great for
- Enterprises seeking enforceable code quality policies
- Teams practicing continuous integration and delivery
- Projects needing multilingual static analysis
- Organizations that can allocate server resources for a Java application
Not ideal when
- Tiny scripts or single‑file projects
- Teams without capacity to manage a dedicated server
- Environments requiring instant, low‑overhead analysis
- Users needing out‑of‑the‑box cloud SaaS only
How teams use it
Enforce quality gates in CI pipelines
Builds fail automatically when new bugs or code smells exceed thresholds, preventing regressions.
Track technical debt over time
Dashboard visualizes debt ratio, helping managers prioritize refactoring efforts.
Integrate custom language plugins
Extend analysis to proprietary languages, ensuring consistent standards across the codebase.
Local development quality feedback
Developers run SonarQube locally to get immediate issue reports before committing code.
Tech snapshot
Java100%
Shell1%
Ruby1%
HTML1%
Batchfile1%
Dockerfile1%
Frequently asked questions
Which programming languages are supported?
SonarQube includes built‑in analyzers for many popular languages and can be extended with plugins for additional languages.
How do I deploy SonarQube locally?
Build the project with Gradle, unzip the distribution, and start the server using the provided scripts for Linux, macOS, or Windows.
Can I contribute UI changes?
Yes. The UI lives in the sonarqube‑webapp repository; after building it with Yarn you can point the backend build via the WEBAPP_BUILD_PATH environment variable.
Project at a glance
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LicenseLGPL-3.0
Repo age15 years old
Last commit21 hours ago
Primary languageJava
Last synced 12 hours ago