On macOS systems

Pre-installation steps on SonarQube Server 2025.3 host for the Developer and Enterprise Editions on macOS systems.

Because SonarQube Server uses an embedded Elasticsearch, make sure that your host configuration complies with the Elasticsearch production mode requirements and File Descriptors configuration.

Configuring the maximum number of open files

Set the file limit values by running the following commands.

sudo sysctl kern.maxfiles=131072
sudo sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc=131072
ulimit -n 131072