Narrowing down the scope of the scanning

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Input data:

  • ALM used: Azure DevOps
  • CI system used: Azure DevOps Pipelines
  • Languages of the repository: C#, TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS
  • Steps to reproduce: whenever I start the new build process it fails when it comes to publishing a QualityGate result with the following error: "##[error][SQ] Task failed with status FAILED, Error message: This analysis will make your organization ‘xxx’ to reach the maximum allowed lines limit (having 300751 lines). "

My problem is that this number of lines of code is extremely far from reality. I measured the C# code with the command line tool available in GitHub (cloc) and the real numbers are the following:

lines
lines1732×1504 315 KB

Having this report in mind, I know there’s is a lot of ‘noise’ that I don’t even want to scan and we have enough capacity with our existing license. At the same time, how do I configure SonarCloud so we only scan the C# code, omitting everything else?
I have already configured the exclusions in the Source File Exclusions, but it doesn’t help to reduce the scanning scope significantly.

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Hey there.

The documentation on Narrowing the Focus should be helpful here. If there’s more to exclude than you want to include, use sonar.inclusions, if it’s the other way around: sonar.exclusions.

Keep in mind that we think one of our strengths is being multi-language – so if there are other languages you are actively developing in (not just using libraries of or storing data in), be careful how you configure this. The settings are pretty flexible.