We compared SonarQube and GitHub Advanced Security based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
SonarQube offers a comprehensive solution with versatile language support, seamless integration with DevOps pipelines, and configurable features, making it a cost-effective choice with exceptional customer service. GitHub Advanced Security focuses on effective security measures, robust vulnerability detection, and user-friendly features, providing a valuable investment with flexible pricing and customizable options. Both platforms have room for improvement in areas such as analysis speed, user interface refinement, and integration capabilities.
Features: SonarQube's valuable features emphasize comprehensive code quality parameters, multiple language support, and integration with DevOps pipelines. GitHub Advanced Security focuses on software composition analysis, code scanning, and vulnerability alerts, with robust security measures and seamless workflow integration.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for SonarQube is considered straightforward and easy, with users appreciating the simplicity of the process. On the other hand, GitHub Advanced Security also has a straightforward and hassle-free setup cost. Both products offer flexible and customizable licensing options to cater to different user requirements., SonarQube has been praised for its ability to improve code quality, identify issues, and enhance project efficiency. Users benefit from its vulnerability detection and code compliance tools. On the other hand, GitHub Advanced Security offers enhanced security features, comprehensive vulnerability scanning, and automated security alerts, resulting in significant ROI and eliminating the need for third-party security tools.
Room for Improvement: In terms of areas for improvement, SonarQube could benefit from enhancing analysis speed, refining the user interface, providing clearer setup instructions, improving the documentation, addressing occasional performance issues, and enhancing integration options. On the other hand, users have suggested better integration with third-party tools, more customization options, improved usability and intuitiveness of the user interface, and increased speed and responsiveness for GitHub Advanced Security.
Deployment and customer support: Users report varying durations for implementing a new tech solution with SonarQube. Some took 3 months for deployment and a week for setup, while others took a week for both. For GitHub Advanced Security, some users took 3 months for deployment and a week for setup, while others took a week for both., SonarQube's customer service has been praised for its prompt and knowledgeable assistance. Users highlight the team's willingness to address any issues. GitHub Advanced Security's customer service is highly commendable, with users appreciating the level of assistance and guidance they receive. The team is described as responsive, knowledgeable, and efficient in resolving issues.
The summary above is based on 39 interviews we conducted recently with SonarQube and GitHub Advanced Security users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"It ensures user passwords or sensitive information are not accidentally exposed in code or reports."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution as it can handle new applications along with the analysis part."
"GitHub provides advanced security, which is why the customers choose this tool; it allows them to rely solely on GitHub as one platform for everything they need."
"The most valuable is the developer experience and the extensibility of the overall ecosystem."
"Dependency scanning is a valuable feature."
"The product's most valuable features are security scan, dependency scan, and cost-effectiveness."
"I like that it covers most programming languages for source code review."
"SonarQube has a lot of value, it reviews the basic coding standards and security vulnerabilities of code that help to reduce issues."
"It helps our developers work more efficiently as we can identify things in a code prior to it being pushed to where it needs to go."
"SonarQube is one of the more popular solutions because it supports 29 languages."
"It has very good scalability and stability."
"We can create a Quality Gate in order to fail Jenkins jobs where the code coverage is lower than the set percentage."
"The customizable dashboard and ability to include results and coverage from unit test and other static analysis code tools."
"It provides you with many features, as it does with the premium model, but there are still extra features that can be purchased if needed."
"The customizations are a little bit difficult."
"The deployment part of the product is an area of concern that needs to be made easier from an improvement perspective."
"A more refined approach, categorizing and emphasizing specific vulnerabilities, would be beneficial."
"There could be DST features included in the product."
"There could be a centralized dashboard to view reports of all the projects on one platform."
"The report limitations are the main issue."
"If the product could assist us with fixing issues by giving us more pointers then it would help to resolve more of the warnings without such a commitment in terms of time."
"I think the code security can be improved."
"Monitoring is a feature that can be improved in the next version."
"If I configure a project in SonarQube, it generates a token. When we're compiling our code with SonarQube, we have to provide the token for security reasons. If IP-based connectivity is established with the solution, the project should automatically be populated without providing any additional token. It will be easy to provide just the IP address. It currently supports this functionality, but it makes a different branch in the project dashboard. From the configuration and dashboard point of view, it should have some transformations. There can be dashboard integration so that we can configure the dashboard for different purposes."
"Lacks sufficient visibility and documentation."
"It requires advanced heuristics to recognize more complex constructs that could be disregarded as issues."
"For improvement, this solution could be offered on Docker and the cloud and the support for this solution could be improved. Customizing rules could also be made simpler."
"Our developers have complained about the Quality Gates and the number of false positives that this product reports."
GitHub Advanced Security is ranked 15th in Application Security Tools with 6 reviews while SonarQube is ranked 1st in Application Security Tools with 108 reviews. GitHub Advanced Security is rated 9.0, while SonarQube is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of GitHub Advanced Security writes "A tool that provides ease of integration with the set of existing codes in an infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonarQube writes "Easy to integrate and has a plug-in that supports both C and C++ languages". GitHub Advanced Security is most compared with Snyk, Veracode, Fortify on Demand, Checkmarx One and GitLab, whereas SonarQube is most compared with Checkmarx One, SonarCloud, Coverity, Veracode and Fortify on Demand. See our GitHub Advanced Security vs. SonarQube report.
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