Hello team, We are currently facing an issue with sonarqube. We want to clean up some old data from the database and we are doing it from sonar UI using below steps. Administration > Projects > Management, selected the projects we wanted to delete, and click the “Delete” button. Although we have …

Sonarqube database size does not shrink even after all projects are deleted

Colin (Colin) March 10, 2025, 10:25am 2

Hey there.

For most DBs, you need to reclaim unused space.

SonarQube DB size is increasing very fast

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