Code review for quality and security

Automated code review tool with static analysis

Code reviews play a crucial role in ensuring software quality by systematically examining source code to identify defects, improve readability, understandability, and correctness, uncover performance problems, and enhance security. SonarQube significantly streamlines the code review process by providing immediate, high-quality, automated feedback, ensuring consistent code standards and helping teams identify and remediate issues early in the development lifecycle.

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Enhanced code quality and security analysis

SonarQube consistently detects and addresses potential issues in your code, such as bugs, vulnerabilities, and code smells, improving the security, reliability, and maintainability of your software. It also adds quality gates and static code analysis to pull requests for actionable guidance before merge.

It leverages advanced static code analysis techniques to identify even the most elusive problems in 35+ languages, ensuring high-quality code throughout the development lifecycle.

Comprehensive code security insights

SonarQube delivers actionable insights and reports to improve your code security health. Detecting and addressing security vulnerabilities early prevents potential breaches. Built-in dashboards and alerts help teams track trends, prioritize issues, and sustain software quality over time, supporting management reviews, technical reviews, inspections, walk-throughs, and formal audits.

SonarQube ensures compliance with reports for industry standards such as OWASP Top 10, OWASP ASVS, CWE Top 25, and PCI DSS. It maps findings to these frameworks for clear traceability and audit readiness, enabling consistent, standards-based governance across projects.

Improve developer productivity metrics

Automating the code review process, SonarQube reduces the time developers spend on manual reviews. This allows them to focus more on innovative tasks and complex problem-solving, ultimately boosting productivity.

SonarQube's automation streamlines the development workflow, minimizing delays caused by code issues. This approach accelerates delivery by reducing handoffs, clarifying responsibilities, code ownership, and keeping pull requests moving with actionable analysis.

Automated code review

Advanced automated code review

The best-in-class automated code review tool

SonarQube delivers effective code reviews with static analysis for more than 35 programming languages and frameworks, offering a best-in-class solution tailored to your unique development needs. It integrates seamlessly into pull request workflows to provide actionable guidance before changes are merged.

Automatic code feedback

Software engineers and developers receive instant feedback on code quality as changes are committed to pull requests and branches, enabling rapid iteration and improvement. Actionable guidance reduces rework and speeds delivery across teams.

Comprehensive quality reports

SonarQube provides detailed reports on various code quality and security metrics with actionable insights, helping teams make informed decisions about their code. Dashboards highlight trends, prioritize risks, and guide faster remediation.

Improved developer collaboration

By offering a single source of truth for code quality and security, SonarQube enhances collaboration among developers, facilitating discussions and resolutions of code-related issues. Shared dashboards align priorities and speed remediation.

Compliance standards tracking

SonarQube helps adherence to industry standards, including OWASP Top 10, CWE Top 25, STIG, CASA, and PCI DSS, promoting compliant code practices. Mapped reports and alerts streamline audits and guide consistent remediation.

Real-time code analysis

SonarQube IDE plugin enables a start-left approach by analyzing and reviewing code as it is written, providing immediate feedback and remediation suggestions within the developer’s IDE. Inline guidance reduces rework and speeds delivery.

Deep CI/CD pipeline integration

Runs automatic scans in CI/CD pipelines, including pull requests and branch analysis, and automated tests, ensuring every build meets code quality standards. Quality gates block risky changes and surface actionable guidance for fixes.

Customizable quality profiles

SonarQube quality profiles define which coding rules are applied during code analysis, ensuring that code is consistently checked for quality, security, and best practices. Custom profiles align standards to team needs.

Comprehensive dashboards

Provides actionable insights into the codebase with detailed reports and interactive dashboards to track progress, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions. Visual cues prioritize risks and guide faster remediation.

Unlimited team users

You can have as many users as you need for any license. Perfect for teams of any size that need code reviewed.

Unlimited projects

You can have as many projects as you need to review and analyze with no set limit. This is ideal for organizations that need to review code from multiple projects or teams.

Unlimited org scans

This means that you can scan for code reviews as often as you need to without any limit cap. This is essential for organizations that need to continuously improve and monitor the quality of their code.

Integrated code reviews in your CI/CD pipelines

SonarQube integrates effortlessly with popular development tools as one of the leading static code analysis tools, acting as a set of supporting tools across IDEs, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps platforms. This ensures real-time feedback with continuous code review and quality checks without disrupting the developer's workflow. Built‑in pull request analysis and quality gates provide actionable guidance before merge, improving maintainability and security.

DevOps workflow integration

SonarQube integrates seamlessly with popular DevOps platforms such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps, making it easy for team members to incorporate code quality checks into their existing workflows. This ensures that code review becomes an integral part of the development process rather than a disruptive additional step. By embedding automated static analysis directly into CI/CD pipelines, SonarQube also supports secure coding practices, application security, and continuous code refactoring, helping teams catch vulnerabilities and maintain high code quality and security standards without slowing delivery.

Easy for software developers to adopt

With its user-friendly setup and extensive documentation, SonarQube boasts a low learning curve, making it simple for development teams to adopt and start benefiting from its features quickly. Guided onboarding and clear examples help teams configure quality gates and workflows in minutes.

Real-time code review and feedback

Adding SonarQube IDE extension to IDEs provides developers with immediate code quality insights as they write code using static code analysis for maintainability. This real-time feedback helps developers catch and fix issues early, reducing the number of errors that make it into the codebase.

Security and compliance alignment

SonarQube helps compliance teams tie analysis findings to industry frameworks so teams can trace detections to control objectives and assemble audit‑ready evidence efficiently.

Map results to industry standards

Align issues with recognizable control categories and remediation guidance using frameworks including OWASP Top 10 (2025, 2021, 2017), OWASP ASVS, CWE Top 25, PCI DSS, STIG, and CASA.

Actionable security reporting

Use framework-aligned reports and filters to slice findings by specific security categories and drill into the evidence behind each result.

Generate audit-ready artifacts

Export comprehensive Security Reports (PDF) and Regulatory Reports (ZIP containing PDF/CSV/TXT) for audit packages and risk committees. These include project overviews, quality gate status, rules triggered, and detailed lists of findings with timestamps and resolution status.

Establish a traceable evidence chain

Maintain complete governance visibility from detection to remediation with linked issues, code authors, assignees, and timestamps.

Use Cases and Role-Based Value

For Developers

For Reviewers
For Security Teams
For Engineering Managers

For Developers – Real-Time Feedback and Fewer Defects

Developers benefit from immediate, actionable insights directly in their IDE with SonarQube for IDE. Real-time static analysis catches bugs, vulnerabilities, code smells, and maintainability issues as code is written, reducing rework and preventing defects from entering the codebase.

This "start-left" approach accelerates iteration, improves correctness, and promotes better coding habits through consistent guidance and shared coding standards. Developers write cleaner, more secure code with confidence—before a pull request is ever submitted.

Static code reviews for quality and security

SonarQube Server

SonarQube Cloud

SonarQube IDE

SELF-MANAGED

SonarQube Server: self-managed solution for automated code reviews

Perform comprehensive, powerful code reviews with our constantly refined static analysis engine. SonarQube Server employs advanced rules along with smart, exclusive static code analysis techniques to find the trickiest, most elusive issues, code smells, and security vulnerabilities. Quality gates and pull request analysis ensure actionable guidance before merge to improve maintainability and security.

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Cloud-based

SonarQube Cloud: SaaS solution for automated code reviews

Execute thorough, powerful online code reviews detected in each change to your pull requests or main branch and analyze the new state of the code in your repository. View and track all issues such as bugs, code smells and security vulnerabilities. This continuous analysis promotes secure coding, application security, and ongoing code refactoring by focusing on new code, helping teams improve code quality and cloud computing security incrementally with every change.

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Developer-first

SonarQube for IDE: code reviews in your IDE

SonarQube for IDE is a free IDE plugin that provides real-time review and feedback to improve code quality as you write. Receive immediate feedback and remediation recommendations as you type, fixing the code before moving forward. Works best when run in connected mode with SonarQube Cloud or SonarQube Server.

SonarQube for IDE is available from your IDE marketplace:

Visual Studio | VS Code | JetBrains | Eclipse

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