Prerequisites

The SonarQube Cloud prerequisites to meet before you install and use Sonar Vortex.

Before you start, make sure you meet the following prerequisites.

SonarQube Cloud admin settings

You have purchased Sonar Agent Essentials for your SonarQube Cloud organization or your SonarQube Cloud enterprise. Sonar Agent Essentials requires an Enterprise plan or an annual Team plan.

Project settings

Make sure your project:

• Is analyzed in your CI pipeline on a long-lived branch
• Uses SonarQube Cloud Architecture, for the best guidance of your agent

You also need your project key, which you pass to the sonar integrate command when you install Vortex through the SonarQube CLI. You can find it in your project's settings in SonarQube Cloud.