sonar.jdbc.driverClassName 

JDBC Driver used by Sonar

org.h2.Driver

Prior to Sonar 3.2: org.apache.derby.jdbc.ClientDriver

sonar.jdbc.url

JDBC Connection URL

jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost:9092/sonar

Prior to Sonar 3SonarQube3.2: jdbc:derby://localhost:1527/sonar

sonar.jdbc.username

User for the JDBC Connection

sonar

sonar.jdbc.password

Password for the JDBC Connection

sonar

The project key that is unique for each project.
Set through <groupId>:<artifactId> when using Maven.

Name of the project that will be displayed on the web interface.
Set through <name> when using Maven.

sonar.language

Sets Set the language of source code. If a Sonar plugin allows to analyze another language, the associated source code analyser can be activated with this property.The default language can be set at instance level: go to Configuration > General Settings > General and set the sonar.language property. 

java

since 2.0

Comma-separated paths to directories containing sources.
Not compatible with Maven: source code retrieved from default location for Java Maven projects. 

Description of the project.
Set through <description> when using Maven. 

Comma-separated paths to directories containing binaries (in case of Java: directories with class files).
Not compatible with Maven: binaries retrieved from default location for Java Maven projects. 

Comma-separated paths to directories containing tests.
Not compatible with Maven: tests retrieved from default location for Java Maven projects.  

Comma-separated paths to files with third-party libraries (in case of Java: JAR files). Pattern can be used.

Example:

sonar.libraries=path/to/specific/library/myLibrary.jar,path/to/library/*.jar

Note that * wildcard character is not supported for directories (only for files).

This property is used by rule engines during issues detection (mainly SonarQubeengine and FindBugs engines which rely on bytecode). Having the bytecode of these libraries allows to get more information on coupling, possible null parameters when calling external APIs, etc. and thus getting more accuracy during issues detection.

Encoding of source files. Example of values: UTF-8, MacRoman, Shift_JIS. This property can be replaced by the standard property project.build.sourceEncoding in Maven projects.

The list of available encodings depends on your JVM. See http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html.

System encoding

sonar.importSources

Sometimes, for security or other reasons, project sources must not be stored and displayed.

true

since 1.5

It becomes quickly necessary to input historical data and to highlight some events. It is possible by going for example in a subversion tag and use the sonar.projectDate option. Format is yyyy-MM-dd, for example 2010-12-25.

Current date

since 1.5

sonar.exclusions

Exclude files from analysis. This property is usually set in the page Settings of the project. It's a comma separated list of wildcard patterns. Paths are defined from the source base directory. Example: com/mycompany/*.java,**/*Dummy.java.
Complete documentation on the Sonar web interface: go to MyProject > Exclusions.
To exclude a module (Maven module, C# module, etc.), you have to use the sonar.skippedModules property. 

since 1.8

See Project Administration for more details. This page also details sonar.tests.exclusions, sonar.inclusions, sonar.tests.inclusions, sonar.global.exclusions, sonar.global.tests.exclusions.

sonar.skippedModules

Some project modules should not be analyzed and consolidated with global project measures, for instance samples, integration tests or generated code.
If a module's artifactId differs from its module name (the directory name): it is the artifactId that should be use instead of the module name. Format is a comma-separated list of modules: module1_toexclude module1_to_exclude,module2_toexcludeto_exclude.

since 1.5

sonar.includedModules

Comma-separated list of the modules to analyse, all other modules are automatically ignored. Be careful: the root project must be added to the list.
If a module's artifactId differs from its module name (the directory name) : it is the artifactId that should be use instead of the module name.

since 2.2

Manage SCM branches. Two branches of the same project are considered as different projects in SonarSonarQube.

since 1.10

sonar.profile

Through the Sonar web interface, you can define as many quality profiles as you want and you can easily associate one of this these quality profile profiles to a given project. You can also make this association by using the property "sonar.profile".

Default profile for the given language

since 1.6

sonar.skipDesignDeactivate

Java bytecode analysis. Since Sonar 2.0, the java bytecode is analyzed by Sonar in order to extract dependencies between packages and files. Those dependencies are used for instance to display the DSM (Dependency System Matrix). This bytecode analysis can be deactivated.To skip the computation of design metrics and dependencies.

Currently only available for Java.

false

since 2.0

sonar.phase

Run maven phase or goal prior to analysis. When Sonar needs a When SonarQubeneeds a Maven phase or maven goal to be executed prior to the analysis, this parameter can be used. For example sonar.phase=generate-sources. This property is used only for Maven analysis.

since 1.10

sonar.

Java Version of the Source Code. This property is not used by the Sonar core but can be used by Java Sonar plugin like the PMD plugin. 

1.4, 1.5, 1.6 since 2.10. 1.7 since 2.12

since 2.6

sonar.java.target

Target Java Version of the Source Code. This property is not used by the Sonar core but can be used by Java Sonar plugin like the Clover plugin.

1.4, 1.5 since 2.10

since 2.6

dynamicAnalysis

Dynamic analysis relates to unit tests. By default, those unit tests are executed but you can optionally decide to do only static analysis or to reuse existing reports which have been previously generated. Possible values are true, false, reuseReports.

See

the Code Coverage by Unit Tests tutorial for details and examples.

true

since 1.7

The absolute or relative path of the surefire reports directory. Used only if sonar.dynamicAnalysis is reuseReports.

See the Code Coverage by Unit Tests tutorial for details and examples.

since 1.7

sonar.jacoco.reportPath

The absolute or relative path of the jacoco report file. Used only if sonar.dynamicAnalysis is reuseReports.

See the Code Coverage by Unit Tests tutorial for details and examples.

since 2.12

sonar.cobertura.reportPath

The absolute or relative path of the cobertura xml report file. Used only if sonar.dynamicAnalysis is reuseReports.

See the Code Coverage by Unit Tests tutorial for details and examples.

since 1.7

sonar.clover.reportPath

The absolute or relative path of the clover xml report file. Used only if sonar.dynamicAnalysis is reuseReports.

See the Code Coverage by Unit Tests tutorial for details and examples.

since 1.7

The absolute or relative path of the jacoco report file for integration tests.

See the Code Coverage by Integration Tests tutorial for details and examples.

To set the working directory for the SonarQube Runner or the SonarQube Ant Task (versions greater than 2.0).

Beware: the specified folder is deleted before running each analysis.

sonar.host.connectTimeoutMs and sonar.host.readTimeoutMs

Increasing HTTP timeouts of requests to Sonar server. The Maven plugin executes some HTTP requests to the Sonar server. Two timeouts makes the call fail fails if the server connection is too slow. In such a case the timeouts can be increased from Maven properties.

respectively 30'000 and 60'000 milliseconds

since 1.12

Minimum number of successive duplicated tokens before triggering a duplication.

Property inactive on java projects.

100

since 2.14

Minimum number of successive duplicated lines before triggering a duplication.

Property inactive on java projects.

10
30 for Cobol
20 for Abap
20 for Natural