sonar.web.javaOpts and sonar.ce.javaOpts not used (community version with Helm)

SonarQube Server / Community Build
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Hello,

I see that when I set sonar.web.javaOpts or sonar.ce.javaOpts in sonarProperties for Helm chart, value is not used.

Any JVM flag (-Xmx for example) I set is not used.

But if I set sonar.web.javaAdditionalOpts or sonar.ce.javaAdditionalOpts, flags are used !

For sonar.search.javaOpts, flags are used without problem.

For example :

sonar.web.javaOpts: -Xmx2G → JVM flag is not used

sonar.web.javaAdditionalOpts: -Xmx2G → JVM flag is used

sonar.ce.javaOpts: -Xmx2G → JVM flag is not used

sonar.ce.javaAdditionalOpts: -Xmx2G → JVM flag is used

sonar.search.javaOpts: -Xmx2G → JVM flag is used

Any idea why the flags are not used the same way ?

Thanks,

Jérôme

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Hi Jerome,

(Sorry about the missing accents. AmE keyboard :flushed_face: )

Can you share how you’re setting these values?

 
Thx,
Ann

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Hi Ann,

No problem for the accents :wink: .

I use Helm to deploy our SonarQube Community instance.

These values are set in the values.yaml like that :

sonarProperties:
  sonar.web.javaOpts: -Xmx2G
  sonar.ce.javaOpts: -Xmx2G

Regards,

Jérôme

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Hi Jerome,

Checking the docs I see

Parameters passed in the command line have precedence over parameters set in values.yaml

Are you passing anything on the command line?

 
Thx,
Ann

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Hi Ann,

These settings are only passed on values.yaml and not on command line.

As I said, if I set sonar.web.javaAdditionalOpts the same way sonar.web.javaOpts, flag is used.

Thx,

Jérôme

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Hi Jerome,

Thanks for clarifying. I’m going to flag this for the team.

 
Ann

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Hello @jerome79 :slight_smile:
Thank you for reporting this, unfortunately I could not reproduce your issue locally… Can you please share the exact Helm chart version you are using?

Thank you.

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Hello @hatem.amairi,

Sure, I use version 2026.1.0 of the chart.

When you set sonar.web.javaOpts: -Xmx2G or sonar.ce.javaOpts: -Xmx2G, flag is passed to the JVM ?

Jérôme

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Hello. Here is how I tried to reproduce and my findings:

  • Chart version: 2026.1.0
  • App version: 2026.1.0
  • Edition: Community Build (community.enabled=true, image sonarqube:26.1.0.118079-community)

1. javaOpts

sonarProperties:
  sonar.web.javaOpts: -Xmx2G -Xms2G -Drepro.web.javaOpts=true
  sonar.ce.javaOpts: -Xmx2G -Xms2G -Drepro.ce.javaOpts=true
  sonar.search.javaOpts: -Xmx2G -Xms2G -Drepro.search.javaOpts=true

Runtime env

SONAR_CE_JAVAOPTS=-Xmx2G -Xms2G -Drepro.ce.javaOpts=true
SONAR_WEB_JAVAOPTS=-Xmx2G -Xms2G -Drepro.web.javaOpts=true

JVM process args

... org.sonar.server.app.WebServer ... -Xmx2G -Xms2G -Drepro.web.javaOpts=true ...
... org.sonar.ce.app.CeServer ... -Xmx2G -Xms2G -Drepro.ce.javaOpts=true ...
... org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch ... -Xmx2G -Xms2G -Drepro.search.javaOpts=true ...

2. javaAdditionalOpts

sonarProperties:
  sonar.web.javaAdditionalOpts: -Xmx2G -Xms2G -Drepro.web.javaAdditionalOpts=true
  sonar.ce.javaAdditionalOpts: -Xmx2G -Xms2G -Drepro.ce.javaAdditionalOpts=true
  sonar.search.javaOpts: -Xmx2G -Xms2G -Drepro.search.javaOpts=true

Runtime env

SONAR_CE_JAVAOPTS=
SONAR_WEB_JAVAOPTS=

This is expected as javaAdditionalOpts live in /opt/sonarqube/conf/sonar.properties and are injected to the JVM at runtime.

sonar.properties content

sonar.ce.javaAdditionalOpts=-Xmx2G -Xms2G -Drepro.ce.javaAdditionalOpts=true
sonar.search.javaOpts=-Xmx2G -Xms2G -Drepro.search.javaOpts=true
sonar.web.javaAdditionalOpts=-Xmx2G -Xms2G -Drepro.web.javaAdditionalOpts=true

JVM process args

... org.sonar.server.app.WebServer ... -Xmx512m -Xms128m ... -Xmx2G -Xms2G -Drepro.web.javaAdditionalOpts=true ...
... org.sonar.ce.app.CeServer ... -Xmx512m -Xms128m ... -Xmx2G -Xms2G -Drepro.ce.javaAdditionalOpts=true ...
... org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch ... -Xmx2G -Xms2G -Drepro.search.javaOpts=true ...

Note: -Drepro.* flags are custom markers so we can track that the values came from the values.yaml file.

If you still think I missed something, please share your exact setup and the exact steps/commands you used to verify the JVM args were missing. I can then compare with my reproduction attempt.

Best regards,

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Ok, thanks for your feedback @hatem.amairi.

I will do other tests to check that.

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