No data from Sonar Cloud - strange behaviour (Bitbucket, CircleCI)

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Details

  • ALM used - Bitbucket Cloud
  • CI system used - Circle CI
  • Languages of the repository - Kotlin, Java

Hi everyone,

I hope this message finds you well. I’m reaching out because I’m encountering some strange behaviour with our setup involving Bitbucket, CircleCI, and Sonar Cloud.

Here’s the issue I’m facing:

  1. When I push a new branch to the server for the first time, CircleCI triggers the pipeline as expected, and the Sonar task runs. However, although I can see my branch listed under the “Branches” section in the Sonar UI, when I click on it, I don’t see any analysis results.
  2. Similarly, if I push another commit to the same branch, the behaviour is exactly the same. The pipeline triggers, the Sonar task runs, and in the Sonar Cloud UI, I see “Last analysis 5 minutes ago,” but there are no analysis results displayed - just a dash in the coverage section.
  3. When I create a pull request, the pipeline doesn’t trigger, and Sonar doesn’t run. However, in Bitbucket, I see empty data from Sonar Cloud, even though Bitbucket displays this as a green light for merge.
  4. Subsequently, when I make another commit to the same branch, which is now under a pull request, the pipeline triggers, Sonar runs, and the Sonar data appears - coverage, issues, etc.

Could anyone offer some guidance on what might be misconfigured here? Why are there no data upon the initial push of a new branch to the server?

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

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Hey there.

For these two cases, it sounds like you’ll have to dig into (or share) your scanner logs (ideally at DEBUG level, setting the analysis parameter sonar.verbose=true) from the CircleCI orb to understand why you don’t see data.