Cortex and SonarQube: A Stronger Partnership for Engineering Excellence
At Cortex, our mission is to empower engineering organizations to ship reliable, secure, and efficient software, faster. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a formalized partnership with Sonar, the leader in code quality and security.
For years, Sonar has been one of the most popular integrations in Cortex. Teams rely on Sonar’s deep code insights to identify vulnerabilities, ensure coverage, and raise the bar for clean, secure code. This partnership enables engineering teams to catch security vulnerabilities earlier and maintain higher code quality standards throughout their development process.
Bringing code quality into your development workflow
Cortex transforms fragmented service documentation into a single, searchable catalog that helps developers find what they need without hunting through multiple systems. Each entity page in Cortex is enriched with live data from over 50 integrations, including Sonar.
This means engineers no longer need to dig across tools for the information they need. On a single page, they can instantly see:
Who owns the service
Most recent release and deployment history
Reliability metrics, including SLOs & monitors
Code coverage, vulnerability status, and other Sonar metrics
From there, teams can easily drill down into Sonar projects, or use this data as inputs into Cortex Scorecards.
Turning insights into action
The Cortex + Sonar partnership turns code quality data into engineering intelligence, helping teams ship better code faster while reducing technical debt.
With Scorecards, teams can define what “good” looks like across engineering practices, and measure services against those benchmarks. Organizations often establish maturity levels for Operational Excellence like Bronze, Silver, and Gold. For example:
Bronze: Service ownership defined and SLOs in place
Silver: 70%+ test coverage from Sonar and no critical issues
Gold: 90%+ coverage and zero vulnerabilities
Developers can track progress over time, and Cortex will proactively notify owners when their services fall short of defined goals, acting as a “TPM in a box” for SRE and security initiatives.
Giving leaders a clear view of code quality
For engineering leadership, the combination of Cortex and Sonar provides a bird’s-eye view of code quality across the organization. Reports can be grouped by team, benchmarked against initiatives, and used in quarterly planning or operational excellence reviews.
This elevates Sonar metrics from siloed data points into organizational levers for improvement. Leaders can identify at a glance where risk is concentrated, where teams are excelling, and where to focus investment.
Balancing speed, reliability, and risk in development
Modern engineering teams face constant pressure to ship faster, improve reliability, and reduce risk. Cortex and Sonar together help balance these priorities by embedding code quality and security into the everyday developer experience, while giving leaders the tools to guide progress at scale.
Cortex and Sonar are partnering closely to empower engineering teams to:
Prevent issues before they reach production
Accelerate adoption of best practices
Build a culture of continuous improvement
Get Started
If you’re a Cortex customer, Sonar is one of the easiest and most impactful integrations to enable. And if you’re exploring Cortex or Sonar for the first time, there’s never been a better time to see how they work together.
Schedule a demo or reach out to our team to learn more about the Cortex + Sonar partnership.
