Shell commands

This section explains how you can configure the Docker images of Qodana and the Qodana CLI tool. You can use both tools locally and in CI/CD pipelines. Several options are available in Qodana CLI only.

In several cases, you can configure them using the qodana.yaml file, which is also mentioned in this section.

Starting from version 2022.3 of Qodana, the Ultimate and Ultimate Plus linters require the QODANA_TOKEN variable to refer to the project token. If you run the Community linters of Qodana, using QODANA_TOKEN is necessary only if you wish to view Qodana reports in Qodana Cloud.

Qodana CLI

Qodana CLI stores files in the <userCacheDir> directory, which is mentioned several times throughout this section. Here is the list of <userCacheDir> directory locations depending on the operating system:

Operating System	Path
macOS	`~/Library/Caches/`
Linux	`~/.cache/`
Windows	`%LOCALAPPDATA%\`

If you run the qodana init command in the project directory, Qodana CLI will let you choose the linter that will be run during inspection, and save the choice in qodana.yaml. Once done, you do not need to specify the linter in the commands, which is shown throughout this section.

The detailed description of the qodana init command is available in the Configure a project section.

Paths

This table lists the paths available in Docker images and Qodana CLI:

Path	Description
`/data/project`	Root directory of the project
`/data/results`	Directory to store the analysis results. It should be empty before running Qodana
`/opt/idea`	IDE distributive directory
`/root/.config/idea`	IDE configuration directory
`/data/profile.xml`	The default profile file containing the `qodana.starter` profile configuration. This file is used if a profile was not previously configured either via the CLI or the `qodana.yaml` file. See Order of resolving a profile for details
`/data/project/.idea/inspectionProfiles/`	Directory for binding profile files
`/data/cache/.m2`	Maven project dependencies
`/root/.m2/`	Directory for overriding the `settings.xml` configuration file for Maven
`/data/cache/gradle`	Gradle project dependencies
`/data/cache/nuget`	NuGet project dependencies
`/opt/idea/plugins`	Directory containing plugins
`/data/coverage`	Directory for mapping code coverage files

You can find below several examples of how these paths can be applied.

Override the default inspection profile

By default, Qodana employs the qodana.starter profile, but you can bind and use your own profile instead:

                        docker run \
                           -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                           -v $(pwd)/<profile-file>:/data/profile.xml \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                           jetbrains/qodana-<linter>
                    

                        qodana scan \
                           -v $(pwd)/<profile-file>:/data/profile.xml \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>"
                    

To learn more about profiles, see the order of resolving a profile and Set up a profile sections in this documentation.

Override Gradle settings

For JVM linters, you can override the default Gradle settings:

                        docker run \
                           -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                           -v $(pwd)/gradle.properties:/data/cache/gradle/gradle.properties \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                           jetbrains/qodana-<linter>
                    

                        qodana scan \
                           -v $(pwd)/gradle.properties:/data/cache/gradle/gradle.properties \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>"
                    

Manage plugins

You can automatically download the required plugins from JetBrains Marketplace and use them in your CI/CD pipelines. For example, this shell script will download the Twig plugin:

                IDE_CODE=PS
                PLUGIN_ID="com.jetbrains.twig"
                BUILD_ID="231.7515"
                curl -L -o "$PLUGIN_ID".zip "https://plugins.jetbrains.com/pluginManager?action=download&id=$PLUGIN_ID&build=$IDE_CODE-$BUILD_ID" && unzip "$PLUGIN_ID".zip
            

This script contains several variables explained in the table below.

Variable	Description	Example
`IDE_CODE`	The two-character code of the linter that the plugin should be downloaded for. The available values are: IU - Qodana for JVM IC - Qodana Community for JVM PS - Qodana for PHP PY - Qodana for Python PC - Qodana Community for Python WS - Qodana for JS GO - Qodana for Go	`PS`
`PLUGIN_ID`	Plugin identifier from a plugin page available on JetBrains Marketplace	`com.jetbrains.twig` from the Twig plugin page
`BUILD_ID`	Build ID of Qodana available in Qodana logs	`Starting up Qodana for PHP 2023.2 EAP (build QDPHP-231.7515)`

Variable

Description

Example

IDE_CODE

The two-character code of the linter that the plugin should be downloaded for. The available values are:

PS

PLUGIN_ID

Plugin identifier from a plugin page available on JetBrains Marketplace

com.jetbrains.twig from the Twig plugin page

BUILD_ID

Build ID of Qodana available in Qodana logs

Starting up Qodana for PHP 2023.2 EAP (build QDPHP-231.7515)

You can run Qodana with the plugin file mounted to the plugin directory:

                        docker run \
                           -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                           -v <path-to-plugin>/<plugin-name>:/opt/idea/plugins/<plugin-name> \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                           jetbrains/qodana-<linter>
                    

                        qodana scan \
                           -v <path-to-plugin>/<plugin-name>:/opt/idea/plugins/<plugin-name> \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>"
                    

View Qodana logs

Depending on the tool, you can view log files generated by Qodana:

You can mount the $(pwd)/.qodana/results/ directory to the /data/results directory of the Docker image:

                        docker run \
                           -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                           -v $(pwd)/.qodana/results/:/data/results \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                           jetbrains/qodana-<linter>
                    

Once the Qodana run is complete, you can view log files in the $(pwd)/.qodana/results/ directory.

After running Qodana, in the project root run the $ qodana show -d command for opening the directory containing log files.

Options

Docker images can be configured using several CLI options. All these options can be divided into three groups.

Option type	Example
Requires the equal sign (`=`) between the option name and its argument	`--property=idea.log.config.file=info.xml`
Requires the space character ( ) between the option name and its argument	`--baseline /path/to/sarif/file`
Requires no argument	`--show-report`

Here is the example command that invokes all these options:

                    docker run \
                       -p 8080:8080 \
                       -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                       jetbrains/qodana-<linter> \
                       --property=idea.log.config.file=info.xml \
                       --baseline <baseline-path> \
                       --show-report
                

                    qodana scan \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                       --property=idea.log.config.file=info.xml \
                       --baseline <baseline-path> \
                       --show-report
                

To see the available options, you can use this command:

docker run jetbrains/qodana-<linter> -h

qodana scan -h

Directories

Using these options, you can override the paths described in the Docker image paths section.

Option		Default setting
`-i`, `--project-dir`	Root directory of the inspected project. Files and directories contained in the outside directory are not used while running Qodana	`/data/project`
`-o`, `--results-dir`	Directory to save Qodana inspection results to	`/data/results`
`-r`, `--report-dir`	Directory for saving the generated HTML report. To open the report, you will need to add the `--save-report` option This option is not available in Qodana CLI.	`/data/results/report`
`--cache-dir`	Directory to store cache	`/data/cache`
`-d`, `--source-directory`	Directory inside `--project-dir`. If missing, the whole project is inspected. Files and directories contained in the outside directory like `.git` and `build.gradle` are used by Qodana while inspecting code	None

Override the report directory

This Docker command overrides the default report directory using the --report-dir option, and saves the generated report to the local filesystem using the --save-report option:

            docker run \
               -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
               -v <html-report-directory>:/data/results/newreportdir/ \
               -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
               jetbrains/qodana-<linter> \
               --report-dir /data/results/newreportdir/ \
               --save-report
        

The generated report is saved to the local filesystem as configured by the -v <html-report-directory>:/data/results/newreportdir/ line in this command.

Cache dependencies

You can improve Qodana performance by persisting cache between runs. For example, package and dependency management tools such as Maven, Gradle, npm, Yarn, and NuGet keep a local cache of downloaded dependencies.

By default, Qodana save caches to the /data/cache directory inside a container. You can override this location using the --cache-dir option. This data is per-repository, so you can pass cache from branch-a to build checking branch-b. In this case, only new dependencies would be downloaded if they were added.

This command maps the local directory with the /data/cache directory of the Docker image, which saves cache to your local filesystem:

                docker run \
                   -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                   -v <local-cache-directory>:/data/cache/ \
                   -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                   jetbrains/qodana-<linter>
            

Using the --cache-dir option, you can override the cache directory:

                        docker run \
                           -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                           -v <local-cache-directory>:/data/newcachedir/ \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                           jetbrains/qodana-<linter> \
                           --cache-dir /data/newcachedir
                    

                        qodana scan \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                           --cache-dir /opt/newcachedir
                    

In a GitHub workflow, you can use dependency caching. GitLab CI/CD also has the cache that can be stored only inside the project directory. In this case, you can exclude the cache directory from inspection via qodana.yaml.

Profile

By default, Qodana inspects your code using the qodana.starter profile.

You can configure and override Qodana profiles either in the qodana.yaml file, or using the CLI options from this table.

Option	Description	Default setting
`--disable-sanity`	Skip running the inspections configured by the `qodana.sanity` profile	Enabled
`-n`, `--profile-name`	The profile name from the list of predefined Qodana profiles, or a profile name of a custom profile stored in XML-formatted profile files as `<option name="myName" value="%profileName%"/>`. You can also configure this option using the `qodana.yaml` file	`qodana.starter`
`-p`, `--profile-path`	The absolute path to the profile file. You can also configure this option using the `qodana.yaml` file	None
`--run-promo`	Run promo inspections as a part of the `qodana.starter` profile This option is not available in the Qodana for .NET linter.	Enabled only if Qodana is configured for the `qodana.starter` profile, and the `--run-promo true` option is invoked

Profile name

The --profile-name option lets you run Qodana using either the default profiles or the profile name from a custom profile.

This command lets you override the default profile und run Qodana using the qodana.recommended profile:

                        docker run \
                           -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                           jetbrains/qodana-<linter> \
                           --profile-name qodana.recommended
                    

                        qodana scan \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                           --profile-name qodana.recommended
                    

To run Qodana with a custom profile, use its actual profile name.

This command lets you bind a custom profile:

                        docker run \
                           -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                           -v <path-to-profile-file>/<file-name>:/data/project/.idea/inspectionProfiles/<file-name> \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                           jetbrains/qodana-<linter> \
                           --profile-name <profile-name-from-file>
                    

                        qodana scan \
                           -v <path-to-profile-file>/<file-name>:/data/project/.idea/inspectionProfiles/<file-name> \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                           --profile-name <profile-name-from-file>
                    

Profile path

The --profile-path option lets you override the path to the file containing the profile.

This command lets you bind the file to the profile directory, and the --profile-path option tells Qodana which profile file to read:

                        docker run \
                           -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                           -v <path-to-profile-file>/<file-name>:/data/project/myprofiles/<file-name> \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                           jetbrains/qodana-<linter> \
                           --profile-path /data/project/myprofiles/<file-name>
                    

                        qodana scan \
                           -v <path-to-profile-file>/<file-name>:/data/project/myprofiles/<file-name> \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                           --profile-path /data/project/myprofiles/<file-name>
                    

Custom configuration file

Your project can have several Qodana configurations contained in YAML-formatted files. This comes in handy if you analyze monorepo projects or run a single CI job.

You can use the --config option and a path to a file relatively to the project root:

                    docker run \
                       -v $(pwd):/data/project \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                       jetbrains/qodana-<linter> \
                       --config relative/path/to/config.yaml
                

                qodana scan \
                   -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                   --config relative/path/to/config.yaml
                

Baseline

In the baseline run mode, each new Qodana run is compared to some initial run. This can help in situations when you have no possibility to fix old problems and rather want to prevent the appearance of new ones.

To use the baseline feature, first run Qodana, and in the report UI select the problems that will be considered as baseline. Finally, save the SARIF-formatted file containing the baseline problems.

This is the list of baseline-related options:

Option	Description
`-b`, `--baseline`	Run Qodana in the baseline mode. Provide the path to an existing SARIF report to be used in the baseline state calculation
`--baseline-include-absent`	Include in the output report the results from the baseline run that are absent during the current analysis

This command invokes all baseline options:

                    docker run \
                       -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                       jetbrains/qodana-<linter> \
                       --baseline <path-to-the-SARIF-file> \
                       --baseline-include-absent
                

                    qodana scan \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                       --baseline <path-to-the-SARIF-file> \
                       --baseline-include-absent
                

Here, the <path-to-the-SARIF-file> is the path to a qodana.sarif.json file relative to the project root and taken from a previous Qodana run. If --baseline-include-absent is invoked, the inspection results will include absent problems or the problems detected only in the baseline run but not in the current run.

Based on this run, the SARIF output report will contain the per-problem information on the baseline state.

Code coverage

You can run the code coverage by mapping the directory containing code coverage files to the /data/coverage directory of a Qodana linter image:

                    docker run \
                       -v /my/dir/with/coverage:/data/coverage \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                       jetbrains/qodana-<linter>
                

                    qodana scan \
                       -v /my/dir/with/coverage:/data/coverage \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>"
                

Report

This table contains the options related to reports:

Option	Description
`-s`, `--save-report`	Generate and save HTML-formatted reports
`-w`, `--show-report`	Serve HTML-formatted reports. By default, port `8080` is used

Save the report

The --save-report option in the Docker command lets you save the generated HTML report to your local filesystem:

                docker run \
                   -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                   -v <directory-to-save-report-to>:/data/results/report \
                   -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                   jetbrains/qodana-<linter> \
                   --save-report
            

Show the report

This command runs the web server on port 4040 of a host machine, so your report will be available on http://localhost:4040:

                        docker run \
                           -p 4040:8080 \
                           -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                           jetbrains/qodana-<linter> \
                           --show-report
                    

                        qodana scan \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                           --port 4040 \
                           --show-report
                    

Alternatively, in the project root you can run the qodana show command.

To stop the web server, press Ctrl-C in the Docker console.

Quality gate

Qodana lets you configure a quality gate or the number of problems that will act as a threshold. Once the threshold is exceeded, the inspection run is terminated.

Option	Description
`--fail-threshold`	Set the number of problems that will serve as a quality gate

Here is the command that tells Qodana to fail the build in case the number of problems exceeds 10:

                    docker run \
                       -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                       jetbrains/qodana-<linter> \
                       --fail-threshold 10
                

                    qodana scan \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                       --fail-threshold 10
                

If you run Qodana with the baseline mode enabled, a threshold is calculated as the sum of new and absent problems. The unchanged results are ignored.

Quick-fix

To apply quick-fix strategies to your codebase, you can invoke the --fixes-strategy option.

                    docker run \
                       -v <source-directory>/:/data/project/ \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                       jetbrains/qodana-<linter> \
                       --fixes-strategy <cleanup/apply>
                

                    qodana scan \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                       <--apply-fixes/--cleanup>
                

Properties

Using the --property= option, you can override various Qodana parameters:

Logging messages to STDOUT
Disabling user statistics
Configuring plugins

Option	Description
`--property=`	Set a JVM property using this notation: --property=property.name=value1,...,valueN This option can be repeated multiple times for setting multiple JVM properties.

Option

Description

--property=

Set a JVM property using this notation:

--property=property.name=value1,...,valueN

This option can be repeated multiple times for setting multiple JVM properties.

Log INFO messages to STDOUT

The default log level for STDOUT is WARN. You can override it using the idea.log.config.file property.

                        docker run \
                           -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                           jetbrains/qodana-<linter> \
                           --property=idea.log.config.file=info.xml
                    

                        qodana scan \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                           --property=idea.log.config.file=info.xml
                    

Disable user statistics

To disable reporting of usage statistics, adjust the idea.headless.enable.statistics value of the --property option:

                        docker run \
                           -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                           jetbrains/qodana-<linter> \
                           --property=idea.headless.enable.statistics=false
                    

                        qodana scan \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                           --property=idea.headless.enable.statistics=false
                    

Configure plugins

Using the idea.required.plugins.id and idea.suppressed.plugins.id properties, you can specify the plugins required for a specific run, and the list of plugins that will be suppressed:

                        docker run \
                           -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                           jetbrains/qodana-<linter> \
                           --property=idea.required.plugins.id=JavaScript,org.intellij.grails \
                           --property=idea.suppressed.plugins.id=com.intellij.spring.security
                    

                        qodana scan \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                           --property=idea.required.plugins.id=JavaScript,org.intellij.grails \
                           --property=idea.suppressed.plugins.id=com.intellij.spring.security
                    

Analysis of changes

Option	Description
`--diff-start` and `--diff-end`	Run incremental analysis on a change set like merge or pull requests

If you just finished work and would like to analyze the changes, you can employ the --diff-start option and specify a hash of the commit that will act as a base for comparison:

                    docker run \
                       -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                       jetbrains/qodana-<linter> \
                       --diff-start=<GIT_START_HASH>
                

                    qodana scan \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                       --diff-start=<GIT_START_HASH>
                

To analyze a set of changes between two commits, employ both --diff-start and --diff-end options:

                    docker run \
                       -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                       jetbrains/qodana-<linter> \
                       --diff-start=<GIT_START_HASH> \
                       --diff-end=<GIT_END_HASH>
                

                    qodana scan \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                       --diff-start=<GIT_START_HASH> \
                       --diff-end=<GIT_END_HASH>
                

Run scenario

Option	Description	Default setting
`--script`	Override the default run scenario	`default`

Application of the default run scenario is equivalent to running this command:

                    docker run \
                       -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                       jetbrains/qodana-<linter> \
                       --script default
                

                    qodana scan \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                       --script default
                

For the PHP version migration scenario, use this command:

                    docker run \
                       -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                       jetbrains/qodana-<linter> \
                       --script php-migration:<old-php-version>−to−<upgraded-php-version>
                

                    qodana scan \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                       --script php-migration:<old-php-version>−to−<upgraded-php-version>
                

Forward reports to Qodana Cloud

To forward reports to Qodana Cloud, you can set the list of Docker environments as explained in the Forward reports section.

Alternatively, see the Send analysis reports to Qodana Cloud chapter of this section.

Change the Heap size

By default, the Heap size is set to 80% of the host RAM. You can configure this setting using the _JAVA_OPTIONS variable:

                        docker run \
                           -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                           -e _JAVA_OPTIONS=-Xmx6g \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                           jetbrains/qodana-<linter>
                    

                        qodana scan \
                           -e _JAVA_OPTIONS=-Xmx6g \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>"
                    

To learn more about configuring the Heap, see the Heap Tuning Parameters of the Oracle documentation.

Override the idea.properties file

The idea.properties configures the default locations of the IDE files.

You can override the idea.properties file using the IDEA_PROPERTIES variable:

                        docker run \
                           -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                           -e IDEA_PROPERTIES=/data/project/idea.properties \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                           jetbrains/qodana-<linter>
                    

                        qodana scan \
                           -e IDEA_PROPERTIES=/data/project/idea.properties \
                           -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>"
                    

Configure root and non-root users

By default, a Docker container runs under the root user, so Qodana can read project information and write inspection results. Therefore, all files in the results/ directory are owned by the root user after the run.

To overcome this, you can run the container as a regular user:

                        docker run \
                        -u $(id -u):$(id -g) \
                        -v $(pwd):/data/project/ \
                        -v <results-directory>:/data/results/ \
                        -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                        jetbrains/qodana-<linter>
                    

In this case, the results/ directory on the host should already be created and owned by you. Otherwise, Docker will create it as the root user, and Qodana will not be able to write to it.

TeamCity and Qodana CLI run Qodana using a current non-root user. This can be inconvenient if you wish to install dependencies using the apt tool invoked in the bootstrap section.

To run Qodana as a root user in TeamCity, add the -u root option in the Additional Docker arguments field of the Qodana runner configuration.

To run Qodana CLI as a root user, you can append -u root option to the qodana scan command:

qodana scan -u root

Options available in Qodana CLI

Global options

Qodana CLI provides the following configuration options you can call independently of Qodana linters.

Option	Description
`--disable-update-checks`	Disable checking and notification about new versions of Qodana CLI
`--log-level <string>`	Change log level in the output of Qodana CLI. For example, you can set `--log-level debug` to receive the detailed log reports. The default setting is `error`

Configure a project

You can use these options with the qodana init <options> command:

Option	Description	The default value
`--config <string>`	Set a custom configuration file instead of `qodana.yaml`. Use a path relative to the project directory	None
`-f, --force`	Force initialization, overwrite the existing valid `qodana.yaml` file	None
`-h, --help`	Help for the `qodana init` command	None
`-i, --project-dir <string>`	Specify the root directory of your project	`.`

Scan projects

You can use these options with the qodana scan <options> command:

Option

Description

-l, --linter <string>

In place of <string>, specify the linter that you would like to employ:

Linter name	Description
`jetbrains/qodana-jvm-community:2024.3`	Qodana Community for JVM
`jetbrains/qodana-jvm:2024.3`	Qodana for JVM
`jetbrains/qodana-jvm-android:2024.3`	Qodana Community for Android
`jetbrains/qodana-android:2024.3`	Qodana for Android
`jetbrains/qodana-php:2024.3`	Qodana for PHP
`jetbrains/qodana-python:2024.3`	Qodana for Python
`jetbrains/qodana-python-community:2024.3`	Qodana Community for Python
`jetbrains/qodana-js:2024.3`	Qodana for JS
`jetbrains/qodana-go:2024.3`	Qodana for Go
`jetbrains/qodana-dotnet:2024.3`	Qodana for .NET
`jetbrains/qodana-cdnet:2024.3-eap`	Qodana Community for .NET
`jetbrains/qodana-clang:2024.3-eap`	Qodana for C/C++

Also, you can use any Docker image that has Qodana.

--ide <string>

Run Qodana in native mode. Not compatible with the --linter option. In place of <string>, specify the linter code from this table:

Linter code	Description
`QDJVMC`	Qodana Community for JVM
`QDJVM`	Qodana for JVM
`QDPHP`	Qodana for PHP
`QDPY`	Qodana for Python
`QDPYC`	Qodana Community for Python
`QDJS`	Qodana for JS
`QDGO`	Qodana for Go
`QDNET`	Qodana for .NET

To employ EAP versions of Qodana, append -EAP to the code, for example QDNET-EAP.

-i, --project-dir <string>

Root directory of the analyzed project. The default value is .

-o, --results-dir <string>

Override the directory for saving Qodana analysis results. The default value is <userCacheDir>/JetBrains/Qodana/<linter>/results

--cache-dir <string>

Override the cache directory. The default value is <userCacheDir>/JetBrains/Qodana/<linter>/cache

-r, --report-dir <string>

Override the directory for saving Qodana HTML reports. The default value is <userCacheDir>/JetBrains/<linter>/results/report

--print-problems

Print in the CLI output all problems found by Qodana

--code-climate

Generate a SARIF-formatted Code Climate report supported by GitLab CI/CD. The report will be saved in the directory specified by the --results-dir option. By default, this option is enabled if GitLab CI/CD is running

--bitbucket-insights

Generate a Code Insights report supported by Bitbucket Cloud. By default, this option is enabled if Qodana is being run in the Bitbucket Pipelines

--clear-cache

Clear the local Qodana cache before running analyses

-w, --show-report

Serve an HTML report on the port specified by the --port option

--port <int>

Port to serve the report. The default value is 8080

--config <string>

Set a custom configuration file instead of qodana.yaml. Use a path relative to the project root directory

-a, --analysis-id <string>

Unique report identifier (GUID) to be used by Qodana Cloud. The default value is 2c72b6e8-f09d-472a-bb86-8a7d8e374ed1

-b, --baseline <string>

Provide the path to an existing SARIF report to be used in the baseline state calculation

--baseline-include-absent

Include baseline problems that are marked absent in the output report

--full-history [--commit <commit-hash>]

Go through the full commit history and run the analysis on each commit. If combined with --commit, the analysis will be started from the given commit

--commit <commit-hash> [--full-history]

Reset Git and run analysis only for the files modified since the given commit. If combined with the --full-history option, full history analysis will be started from the given commit

--fail-threshold <string>

Set the number of problems that will serve as a quality gate. Once the quality gate threshold is reached, the analysis will be terminated with a non-zero exit code

--disable-sanity

Skip the inspections configured by the qodana.sanity inspection profile

-d, --source-directory <string>

Specify the directory inside the project-dir directory that must be analyzed. If not specified, the whole project will be analyzed

-n, --profile-name <string>

Specify the profile name

-p, --profile-path <string>

Specify the path to the profile file

--run-promo <true|false>

Set this option to true to use the promo inspections; set to false otherwise. The default value is true if Qodana is executed using the default profile

--script <string>

Override the run scenario of Qodana. Currently, the following run scenarios are available:

Scenario name	Description
`default`	The default Qodana scenario, enabled by default
`php-migration`	PHP version migration scenario
`local-changes`	Analyze only uncommitted changes. You can see the Analyze changes section to learn more about incremental analysis

--coverage-dir <string>

Specify the directory that contains code coverage data for analysis

--apply-fixes

Apply all available quick-fix strategies including cleanup, see the Quick-fix section for details

--cleanup

Run the CLEANUP quick-fix strategy, see the Quick-fix for details

--property <stringArray>

Set a JVM property to be used while running Qodana. Use the --property property.name=value1,value2,...,valueN notation

-s, --save-report

Generate an HTML report. This option is enabled by default

--timeout int

Set Qodana analysis time limit in milliseconds. Once reached, the analysis will be terminated and the process will exit with the timeout-exit-code code. The default setting is 1

--timeout-exit-code <int>

Override the default timeout setting --timeout option. The default value set by the timeout option is 1

--diff-start <string>

Set the hash of the commit that will act as a base for comparison in a change analysis

--diff-end <string>

Set the hash of the commit that will act as an end in a change analysis. This lets you analyze only files changed between the --diff-start and --diff-end commits

--no-statistics

Disable sending anonymous statistics

--compile-commands <string>

Specify the path to the compile_commands.json file. The default value is ./build/compile_commands.json"

--clang-args <string>

Set additional arguments, see the C / C++ section for details

--solution <string>

Set a relative path to a solution file, see the .NET section for details

--project <string>

Set a relative path to a project file, see the .NET section for details

--configuration <string>

Specify the build configuration, see the .NET section for details

--platform <string>

Specify the build platform, see the .NET section for details

--no-build

Skip project building before analyses, see the .NET section for details

-e, --env <stringArray>

Define environment variables for the Qodana container, multiple variables can be specified. For security reasons, Qodana CLI does not read environment variables from the host operating system, so all variables required by Qodana should be specified explicitly.

-v, --volume <stringArray>

Define additional volumes for the Qodana container, multiple volumes can be specified. For example, qodana scan --volume $(pwd)/.qodana/results:/data/results/

-u, --user <string>

User to run Qodana container as. Please specify the user ID – $UID or the user ID and group ID $(id -u):$(id -g). Use root to run as the root user. By default, it is set to the current user

--skip-pull

Skip pulling the latest Qodana container

-h, --help

Help for the qodana scan command

Send analysis reports to Qodana Cloud

You can use these options with the qodana send <options> command:

Option	Description
`-a, --analysis-id <string>`	The unique report identifier (GUID) to be used by Qodana Cloud. The default value is `f9d8a78f-f922-452b-8062-a64afc352537`
`--config <string>`	Set a custom configuration file instead of `qodana.yaml`. Use a path relative to the project root directory
`-h, --help`	Help for the `qodana send` command
`-l, --linter <string>`	Override the linter which report will be used for sending to Qodana Cloud
`-i, --project-dir <string>`	Root directory of the project which report will be sent to Qodana Cloud. The default value is `.`
`-r, --report-dir <string>`	Override the directory for saving Qodana HTML reports. The default value is `<userCacheDir>/JetBrains/<linter>/results/report`
`-o, --results-dir <string>`	Override the directory that will be used for sending a Qodana report from. The default value is `<userCacheDir>/JetBrains/<linter>/results`

View reports

You can use these options with the qodana show <options> command:

Option	Description
`--config <string>`	Set a custom configuration file instead of `qodana.yaml`. Use a path relative to the project root directory
`-d, --dir-only`	Open the report directory only without serving it
`-h, --help`	Help for the `qodana show` command
`-l, --linter <string>`	Override the linter which report should be viewed
`-p, --port <int>`	Specify the port to serve a report. The default value is `8080`
`-i, --project-dir <string>`	Root directory of the project which report should be viewed. The default value is `.`
`-r, --report-dir <string>`	Override the directory to save a Qodana HTML report. This is the directory that contains the `index.html` file. The default value is `<userCacheDir>/JetBrains/<linter>/results/report`
`-o, --results-dir <string>`	Override the directory for saving analysis results. The default value is `<userCacheDir>/JetBrains/<linter>/results`

View SARIF-formatted files

You can run the qodana view <options> command using these options:

Option	Description	Default setting
`-f, --sarif-file <string>`	Path to the SARIF-formatted file	`./qodana.sarif.json`
`-h, --help`	Help for the `qodana view` command	None

Count contributors

To collect information about contributors to your project, you can run the qodana contributors <options> command with the following options:

Option	Description	Default setting
`-d, --days <int>`	The number of days in the past that should be used for calculating the number of active contributors	90
`-h, --help`	Help for the `qodana contributors` command	None
`-o, --output string`	The output format. Available values are `tabular` and `json`	`tabular`
`-i, --project-dir <stringArray>`	The Directory of the project that can be specified multiple times to check multiple projects	`.`

View project statistics

Using the qodana cloc <options> command, you can view information about your project, such as languages and lines of code. Here is the list of options available for this command:

Option	Description
`-h, --help`	Help for the `qodana cloc` command
`-o, --output <string>`	The output format that accepts the `tabular`, `wide`, `json`, `csv`, `csv-stream`, `cloc-yaml`, `html`, `html-table`, `sql`, `sql-insert`, `openmetrics` values. The default setting is `tabular`
`-i, --project-dir <stringArray>`	The project directory. This option can be specified multiple times to check multiple projects. If not specified, the current directory will be used

Pull a Qodana image

Using the qodana pull <options> command, you can pull the Qodana linter that you would like to employ. Qodana CLI takes information about the linter using either the qodana.yaml file configuration or the --linter option.

Option	Description
`--config <string>`	Set a custom configuration file instead of `qodana.yaml`. Use a path relative to the project root directory
`-h`, `--help`	Help for the `qodana pull` command
`-l`, `--linter <string>`	Specify the linter that you would like to pull
`-i`, `--project-dir <string>`	The root directory of the analyzed project. If not specified, the current directory will be used

Generate an autocompletion script

Generate an autocompletion script for a specific shell. See each sub-command's help for details on how to use the generated script.

See the list of available commands for qodana completion <command> as shown in this table:

Command	Description
`bash`	Generate the autocompletion script for bash
`fish`	Generate the autocompletion script for fish
`powershell`	Generate the autocompletion script for PowerShell
`zsh`	Generate the autocompletion script for zsh
`-h, --help`	Help for the `qodana completion` command

Order of resolving a profile

Qodana checks the configuration parameters for resolving the inspection profile in this order:

Profile with the name %name% from the command-line option --profile-name %name%
Profile by the path %path% from the command-line option --profile-path %path%
Profile with the name %name% from qodana.yaml
Profile by the path %path% from qodana.yaml
Profile mounted to /data/profile.xml
Fall back to using the default qodana.recommended profile

Last modified: 16 January 2025