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SonarQube Cloud (formerly SonarCloud) pros and cons

Vendor: Sonar
4.1 out of 5

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PROS

SonarQube Cloud works effectively for its intended purpose, offering valuable reports and features.
It excels in discovering vulnerabilities, security weak points, and security hotspots, providing crucial feedback in feature branches.
It offers continuous code analysis, enhancing code quality with immediate vulnerability alerts.
The platform provides comprehensive views of code quality metrics, including code duplication and unit test coverage.
Recent updates introduced support for mono reports and microservices, allowing detailed analysis for each service.

CONS

Developers find SonarQube Cloud limited in testing within containers and scanner issues have been reported.
False positives need improvement, requiring manual marking, and sometimes gates behave unpredictably.
Notifications are limited to send to only one person, lacking additional recipient options for wider team engagement.
The reporting lacks sufficient information and customization, hindering operational use and flexibility.
Configuration and initial setup phases require improvement, particularly in optimizing build time for CI/CD integration.
 

SonarQube Cloud (formerly SonarCloud) Pros review quotes

reviewer1992327 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 11, 2023
SonarCloud is overall a good tool for identifying code smells, bugs, and code duplication, but we've found that using Android Lint is more effective for our needs.
Huzaifa Asif - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 12, 2023
Recently, they introduced support for mono reports and microservices, which is a noteworthy development as it provides a more detailed view of each service.
reviewer1871532 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 29, 2022
I'm not implementing the solutions. However, I've talked to the people who deploy the tools, and they are happy with how easy setting up SonarCloud is.
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SenthuranPooranananthan - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 25, 2022
The most valuable features of SonarCloud are the ability to discover vulnerabilities, security weak points, security hotspots, and all the feedback that comes into the feature branch. You can deploy the code with the security, you can eliminate the problem at the developer level rather than identifying the problem in the productions.
Diego Moreo - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 7, 2024
The SaaS solution for checking code without execution and dealing with security issues is valuable.
Archana Verma - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 24, 2025
I find SonarQube Cloud to be very user-friendly with an easy-to-use interface.
HT
Jun 24, 2021
For what it is meant to do, it works pretty well.
reviewer2356089 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 18, 2025
I find SonarQube Cloud very easy to use and simple to integrate initially.
Rashedul Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 10, 2023
The most valuable feature of SonarCloud is its overall performance.
GHASSAN ODETALLAH - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 17, 2022
The reports from SonarCloud are very good.
 

SonarQube Cloud (formerly SonarCloud) Cons review quotes

reviewer1992327 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 11, 2023
The documentation needs improvement on optimizing build time for seamless CI/CD integration with our Android apps.
Huzaifa Asif - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 12, 2023
There's room for improvement in the configuration process, particularly during the initial setup phase.
reviewer1871532 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 29, 2022
CI/CD pipeline is part of a whole chain of design, development, and production, and it's becoming increasingly crucial to optimize the various tools across different stages. However, it's still a silo approach because the full integration is missing. This isn't just an issue with SonarCloud. It's a general problem with tooling.
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SenthuranPooranananthan - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 25, 2022
SonarCloud can improve the false positives. Sometimes the gates sometimes act a little weird. We then need to manually go and mark the false positive.
Diego Moreo - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 7, 2024
Reporting features are missing in SonarCloud.
Archana Verma - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 24, 2025
The UI can be improved.
HT
Jun 24, 2021
I've been told by the developers that the solution is too limited. It's not testing enough within the containers.
reviewer2356089 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 18, 2025
SonarQube Cloud could improve its vulnerability detection compared to Veracode.
Rashedul Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 10, 2023
The reports could improve by providing more information. We are not able to use the reports in our operation until they are improved. Additionally, if the vendor provided more customization capabilities it would be a benefit.
GHASSAN ODETALLAH - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 17, 2022
We had some issues with the scanner.