Hi Aaron,
Understood, however keep in mind that SonarQube’s logic is primarily independent from the CI tools it integrates with. Meaning that a common error in VSTS and Travis, could have a common root-cause and common solution. In this case here if you log at the root-cause in the stack you just shared:
Caused by: Project was never analyzed. A regular analysis is required before a branch analysis
It search matches this specific thread, and before anything I would therefore suggest to follow Fabrice’s advice: