Get link to Sonar dashboard in Jenkins when calling 'gradle sonarRunner'

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With the Jenkins build step `Invoke Standalone Sonar Analysis` (which is available via the Sonar plugin) you get this nice link to the SonarQube dashboard in the job overview: . I'm not using this build step due to an issue but rather have a build step that calls `gradle sonarRunner`: This is the part of my `build.gradle` configuring Sonar: ``` sonarRunner { sonarProperties { property "sonar.projectKey", projectId property "sonar.projectName", projectName // Address of SonarQube server property "sonar.host.url", "http://localhost:9000" // Database config property "sonar.jdbc.url", "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sonar?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8&rewriteBatchedStatements=true" property "sonar.jdbc.driverClassName", "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" property "sonar.jdbc.username", "root" property "sonar.jdbc.password", "superSecret" } } ``` This works great: Just as with the `Invoke Standalone Sonar Analysis` build step, I can browse SonarQube's results at `http://localhost:9000/dashboard…

Accepted Answer

Sidebar-Link Plugin to the rescue!

- Install the plugin.

Put the sonar icon into `/var/lib/jenkins/userContent`. That's inside `JENKINS_HOME`. If you don't know where `JENKINS_HOME` is, take a look in the config file at `/etc/default/jenkins`.

Set up the link like this in the job's configuration (your URL will be different):

- Done

Get link to Sonar dashboard in Jenkins when calling 'gradle sonarRunner'

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