SonarQube Reviews

We generally use the solution in order to do static code analysis.

What I like about SonarQube is the integration of the pipelines. It is pretty easy. 

The reporting and the results are quick. It gets integrated within the pipeline well.

The solution is very stable.

The scalability is very good.

We found the initial setup to be straightforward.

The solution has a very shallow SAST scanning. That is something that can be improved. 

I'm not sure if there is any plan for having DAST, as well, which is the dynamic scanning. If they offered that in SonarQube that would be ideal. I'd like to know if there is a plan or roadmap for Sonar to have that included. However, right now, at least, from the SAST perspective, it can improve.

The pricing could be reduced a bit. It's a little expensive.

We've been using the solution for the past two years or so. It's been a while.

The solution is pretty much stable. Sometimes we have observed some issues when there are a lot of services getting deployed together. We have noticed some resource constraints sometimes. Occasionally the CPU and memory get affected. That was the only thing. It could be due to the resources that we have provided and maybe not the fault of the product itself.

I don't have the user count, however, from the application perspective, we have around 30 to 50 applications, which are on SonarQube. All of the teams that are managing those applications have access to that.

It is integrated within our pipelines. It gets used every day.

Right now we are not scaling the solution. It is just one server that we have. It is static of sizing and we do not scale it.

We do have an enterprise version, however, that does not include the support right now.

If we have any issues we're trying to resolve them on your own. So far, that has been sufficient.

We are also onboarding Checkmarx. We use both solutions.

We are not replacing anything. Maybe we will use both in conjunction. Checkmarx provides DAST, whereas this product does not. 

The initial setup is pretty simple.

I do not recall the exact amount of time it took to deploy the solution.

It does not require a lot of maintenance. It's just that whenever any latest version is coming in, we just have to upgrade it.

We did the installation on our own. We did not need the assistance of any outside resources such as consultants or integrtors. It was all handled in-house.

What we are looking at in the future is a bit of a price reduction. The pricing that we have been quoted for the next version is a little expensive. The pricing could be also a bit reduced.

We are just a customer and an end-user.

While we installed the solution on the cloud, we host it on our machines.

I would recommend the product to the companies or the teams who are building from scratch, and they don't have anything for doing the scanning of their products. That is something where SonarQube can be pretty helpful.

It's good for a very small company with a limited number of products, which do not have a lot of compliance and security-related requirements that big enterprises might have.

I would rate the solution at a six out of ten.

I'm a user also, but I'm also responsible for information security.

I am the principal of security in the office. I'm the one that actually advises people about enhancing or incorporating information security aspects. Right now, we are using a community version. We have yet to subscribe for the enterprise license because we need more disciplined developers first.

Within our organization, there are roughly 14 people using this solution.

We use it to find the scoop, or the use, for peer review for the developers. It will require more time, to get used to it and to get trained. My team is very small and I am part of the development team — I'm in the security team but I'm also part of the development team. I am helping to build this along with the team.

The product itself has a friendly UI. It's easy to use and we understand how to manage the admin control panel, it's really quick. It's really easy to perform admin jobs using the control panel. 

The tools are really easy to use. With the coding, we can build a bunch of rules that apply for each programming language, for example, CSS, Java, and more. Even with the community version, we can still set up rules. We accommodate them and they give us the best quality. It's been a great experience so far.

We could use some team support, but since we are using the community version, it's not available.

Also, because we are using the community version, we have some problems from time to time regarding the SSO logins.

Sometimes you need more time to configure things, to edit some profiles.

SonarQube has come to the end of the project phase. The development team doesn't really utilize this because it's in the product development phase. They need more paths and delivery — they don't really care about security. But now, since we are also certified technical security, we can go ahead and provide that for them.

In short, communication needs to be better.

Automation could be better. Sometimes by default, you need to configure some rules regarding detection. You need to have some parameters set regarding false-positive risk. 

We have had SonarQube for over a year, but we have only been using it for the past two months.

With the use of community version, we already have utilized and carried out our needs to fulfil application security at the earlier stage with small medium SDLC Team.

The initial setup was very straightforward. Overall, deployment took roughly one week.

There are so many qualitative tools other than SonarQube, but I think it's the only platform that is open-source; however, it doesn't cover you end-to-end — from the static, dynamic, and interactive source.

Once we're done with SonarQube, we will switch to a proprietary tool, like Qualys — something that provides more end-to-end — but before we can do that, we need more people who know how to properly run the software.

Overall, I would recommend SonarQube for your initial software quality.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give this solution a rating of eight.

SonarQube ensures that we release a good quality of code to our customers. We have incorporated test driven development within the organization. It is also very helpful to bring a DevOps culture within the organisation.

I follow Quality Gate's graduation model within organization, and it is extremely helpful for me to benchmark products.

Well, load balancing is something we expect it to have. Also, sometimes the loading dashboards are a little slow. When we have a thousand products published over it, we expect it to be more efficient in terms of serving requests from the browser.

No.

Yes, a little bit.

Good.

Previously, we used to use regular code review (static analysis, coverage tools) without much into single dashboard. SonarQube helped to put everything together into place supporting almost all languages, or quality profiles.

Simple to setup.

People can try the free licenses and later can seek buying plugins/support, etc. once they started liking it.

Not really.

SonarQube provides easy upgrade mechanisms, and I rarely found any issues.

Use a good VM for hosting, which can serve large requests on the fly with Oracle DB, etc.

I use SonarQube for Google's web services, from a security perspective, as well as Oracle Forms, HTML Forms, and script. 

SonarQube is deployed on-premises. 

Some of the most valuable features have been the latest up-to-date of the OWASP, the monitoring, the reporting, and the ease of use with the IDE plugins, in terms of integration.

SonarQube's detail in the security could be improved. It may be helpful to have additional details, with regards to Oracle PL/SQL. For example, it's neither as built nor as thorough as Java. For now, this is the only additional feature I would like to see. 

I have been working with the Community Edition for at least ten years, and I have been working with the Enterprise version for about a year. 

So far, we are happy and haven't had any issues with stability.

The only maintenance this product needs, for now, is just updates and patches. 

SonarQube is an auditing requirement from our side and for our SDLC, so it is a gate in our SDLC. 

SonarQube is easy to scale. As we've opted for the Docker builds, we haven't had issues yet. 

At this point, there are at least 300 people in my company who are working with SonarQube. 

I have minor experience with Q One. The main difference is in the licensing structure, with regards to lines of code. We have noticed that Q One has a bit more details, but support for various languages is lacking. 

The setup process of SonarQube is straightforward. Deployment took about a week, but the integration of the multiple teams—introducing them and getting them on board—took about a month. 

We implemented this solution through an in-house team. 

Compared to similar solutions, SonarQube was more accessible to us and had more benefits, with regards to size of the code base and supported languages. Apart from the Enterprise licensing fee, there are no additional costs. 

I rate SonarQube an eight out of ten. 

To anyone who is looking into implementing SonarQube, I would recommend they look at what their requirements are, with regards to languages. If it's just Java, then the Community Edition is fine, but if there are any additional languages, then I would recommend Enterprise. 

SonarQube can be used for any missing components or component vulnerabilities.

Sonarqube has improved our best practice of pair programming that aligned with the CI pipeline.

The product has a friendly UI that is easy to use and understand. Especially, the admin's control panel is very good and It's not really difficult to get through the settings.

With minimal coding experience, we can build many rules that apply for each programming language, for example, CSS, and Java. You can easily set up rules. We are luckily able to do this with the community version.

With other community versions, you are not always allowed to customize the profile for example. With the SonarQube Community Edition, it's authorized.

Since we are using the community version, we have had some issues. For example, we have had some difficulties with the Single Sign-On (SSO) login. We tried to integrate with our Azure ID to have access to login, but it doesn't always update. We have to search for more forums, or in other communities for technical IT.

The documentation is not clear and it needs to be updated. As it is the community version we don't have team support and rely on the documentation that is available. We are creating more disciplines to do peer reviews on SonarQube. There is time spent on creating the tools but not the documentation that is needed for support.

It takes time to configure and create profiles. We need to improvise the way we introduce new tools.

We have only integrated the source code, but there are things that are not being utilized because it is product-driven and there needs to be more path and delivery.

Since we are now certified, we are utilizing more and we are creating an environment for security. We need more emphasis on the security side.

Support needs to improve with their response time.

There is a lack of local partners/vendors in our region and we are having difficulties finding vendors looking for another partner.

In the next release, I would like to see some automation scripts. At times by default, you have to configure some of the rules in the detection. You need some parameters to be set that define the source code, such as those required to eliminate a false positive.

They advance their product without addressing security or internal codes.

SonarQube has been in place for one year, but we have only been using it for the last three months.

It's a scalable product. We have approximately 40 users.

We have contacted support but it's not mandatory operating support and takes some time to get a reply.

We have not used any other solution, but we did some comparisons and decided to go with SonarQube because it was open-source.

The initial setup is straightforward.

It takes a week to complete the deployment.

We are using the open-source community version, but there are enterprise licenses available.

I am a user of SonarQube and I am responsible for the information security.

I'm the principle of security in the office. I advise others of enhancing and incorporating security aspects into the IP.

We are currently using the community version. We are not quite ready for the licensed version as we need more discipline for our developers to do it correctly. Our team is growing, now we will need behavior discipline of security, and then we can upgrade the license. We have passed the ISO certificate and encourage the use of tools for peer reviews for the developers.

It is better to have a technical review before deployment to production. Developers must review before going into production.

It's a great tool but you have to have a good project plan before being introduced to the tools. For us, it is unfortunate that SonarQube was introduced at the end of the project phase, and the team is still having to learn it.

Before introducing any application tools, know the visibility of the project.

I would recommend using the SonarQube open-source version to get used to it before purchasing the license. Before we go with an enterprise product, we have to know the terms and how things are done to run software quality. We had reached out to sales support and asked for the enterprise license as a trial but unfortunately, we had to halt the program.

It's also a part of corporate policy to know everything before it is published into the CI pipeline.

There are other alternatives that provide end-to-end analysis from the static, dynamic, interactive, and SaaS.

I would recommend SonarQube to be on your initial plan for perfect quality.

I would rate SonarQube an eight out of ten.

SonarQube and SonarLint were adapted as part of the CI development process, i.e., the developers who committed to high severity issues in the repository were immediately notified via mail/Jenkins.

An actual RuntimeException bug was discovered and immediately fixed by using SonarQube with CI.

SonarLint: It gives code smell check during development, via linting in IntelliJ (it helped with best practices and in discovering the early potential bugs).

SonarQube: Recording of issues over a period of time, with an indication of the addition in the new issues or the reduction of existing issues (which were fixed).

There is need for support for the additional languages and ease of use in adding new rules for detecting issues. Some issues that were detected after committing to the CSM by SonarQube were not displayed in SonarLint scans (hopefully this was fixed in later versions).

A single developer claimed that the SonarLint plugin caused performance issues on his IntelliJ IDEA. However, this issue was not encountered by the other developers.

There were no scalability issues but we did not use SonarQube/SonarLint on very large code bases.

They have very good documentation at the SonarQube site; during inquiries on possible purchases, the SonarSource team was very responsive.

We did not use a different solution in the past.

The initial setup was relatively simple (raising a dedicated VM server for SonarQube, configuring a Jenkins job to interact with the SQ server on several CSMs).

The SonarLint setup is extremely simple in IntelliJ.

We did not purchase a license (required for C++ support), but this option was considered.

The Java SonarQube version, which is free to use, was extremely helpful and I suggested to my managers that we purchase a license.

We did not evaluate other static code analysis solutions.

I would recommend adopting the usage of SonarLint at the very least for Java development since it is a very good tool for helping to ensure high code quality.

The rich graphical representation of numbers which are meaningful to dev leads/managers and top management .

It was brought in to help with best practices in writing test cases, and each test should pass given all numbers are highlighted on SonarQube.

Executing sonar analysis on a big chunk of code - with an Oracle database does take up a lot of time.

Widgets - as the world of development expands, SonarQube should have plug-ins to cater to different technologies.

I've used it for three years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

It's very good, and I have personally had conversations with the SonarQube guys regarding plug-ins and modifications.

No previous solution was used.

The documentation is good . It should be fairly simple for someone with database knowledge.

We did it in-house.

This solution has the capability to analyze source code in almost all the languages in the market.

This is a well-rounded solution, however, some features could be made available on the free version. The price of the solution could be reduced.

I have used this solution for ten years. 

This is a stable solution. 

This is a scalable solution. We have been using it for all of our critical projects. 

I have never made the calculations to understand the real value of this solution but I know that the return of investment is very good. If not, we wouldn't have continued to use it for the past 10 years.

As a user and a consumer of this solution, it can be pricey for my company to support and use, even though there are many benefits. For this reason, we use the free version. In the future, as our product cycles develop and evolve at a more steady pace, we hope to invest in the licensing for this tool. 

This solution has evolved a lot in the last ten years. 

It comes with good DevOps implementation and security, which is a big problem today.