Introduction

Your introduction to understanding how to use quality gates in SonarQube Server 2026.4.

Quality gates enforce a quality policy for the results of code review and analysis in your organization by answering one question: is my project ready for release?

Two built-in quality gates are provided: Sonar way which is used by default as the default quality gate, and Sonar way for agentic AI which is recommended for agent centric development.

With the Administer Quality Gates permission, you can create your own quality gates, called custom quality gates.

In this section:

• Understanding quality gates

• Viewing a quality gate

• Managing custom quality gates

• Changing instance's default quality gate

• Associating a quality gate with projects

• Quality gate for agentic AI