SonarQube / SonarCloud API
SonarQube/SonarCloud REST API for accessing code quality metrics, security vulnerabilities, code smells, duplications, and technical debt reports from static code analysis.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
SAST/code quality platform. Token auth with permissions scopes. Vulnerability scan results are sensitive — RBAC important. Self-hosted for sensitive IP.
⚡ Reliability
Best When
Your team uses SonarQube or SonarCloud for static analysis and you need to integrate code quality data into dashboards, reports, or CI/CD gates.
Avoid When
You need dependency scanning, runtime analysis, or don't have SonarQube configured.
Use Cases
- • Fetching code quality gate status for CI/CD pipeline decisions
- • Pulling security hotspots and vulnerability counts for security dashboards
- • Querying code coverage trends and component-level metrics
- • Automating issue assignment and management workflows
- • Building engineering productivity dashboards with quality trends
Not For
- • Runtime security monitoring or DAST
- • Dependency vulnerability scanning (use Snyk or Dependabot)
- • Teams without SonarQube/SonarCloud setup
Interface
Authentication
User tokens (personal access tokens) used as Basic Auth username with empty password. System passkeys for service accounts. SonarCloud uses different token generation flow. No OAuth2 for most operations.
Pricing
Community Edition is free for self-hosted. SonarCloud (hosted) free for public repos. Private repo analysis requires paid plan. On-premises requires license for paid editions.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ SonarQube and SonarCloud have similar but not identical APIs — check which platform you're targeting
- ⚠ The Web API explorer is only accessible in the UI — not documented externally as OpenAPI spec
- ⚠ Component keys are project-specific strings, not UUIDs — must know project keys in advance
- ⚠ Quality gate status is computed asynchronously after analysis — poll for completion
- ⚠ Two separate MCP servers exist (sonarqube-mcp-server community project vs this evaluation) — check freshness
- ⚠ Metric keys are internal identifiers — must look up the key list from the API explorer
Alternatives
Full Evaluation Report
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-06.