> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.sonarsource.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/analyzing-source-code/languages/json.md).

# JSON

The analysis of JSON files is enabled for some organizations via a feature flag and will soon be enabled by default for all users. If you want to manually opt-in, you can set the `sonar.featureflag.cloud-security-enable-generic-yaml-and-json-analyzer` property to `true`.

By setting the above mentioned property to `false`, you can also opt-out of the analysis during this roll-out phase.

You can permanently disable the analysis by setting the `sonar.json.activate` property to `false`.

These properties do not affect analysis of language / framework specific YAML files.

In addition to this general JSON analysis, JSON files that are detected as belonging to the [CloudFormation](/sonarqube-cloud/analyzing-source-code/languages/cloudformation.md) or [Azure Resource Manager](/sonarqube-cloud/analyzing-source-code/languages/azure-resource-manager.md) language-types are also analyzed by the dedicated analyzers.

## Language-specific properties <a href="#language-specific-properties" id="language-specific-properties"></a>

To discover and update the JSON-specific properties, navigate in SonarQube Cloud to *Your Project* > **Administration** > **General Settings** > **Languages** > **JSON**. See [Configuration overview](/sonarqube-cloud/analyzing-source-code/analysis-parameters/configuration-overview.md) for more information about setting properties.


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