We have a Javascript/Typescript application that we build using Azure DevOps. As part of the pipeline we run Sonar analysis.

Previously we ran the pipeline using the standard Microsoft hosted agents and the SonarCloudAnalyze step took around 9 minutes. To speed up our builds we have moved to using self hosted agents running on MacBook pro with 16GB of RAM and a M3 CPU.

This change has substantially reduced our build time, but not for the SonarCloudAnlyze step. In fact it has got worse taking around 16 minutes.

Why would the performance have degraded even though it is running on much faster hardware? And, how might we improve the performance?

  - task: SonarCloudPrepare@1
    inputs:
      SonarCloud: 'Sonar Cloud'
      organization: 'XXX'
      scannerMode: 'CLI'
      configMode: 'file'
  - task: SonarCloudAnalyze@1
  - task: SonarCloudPublish@1
    inputs:
      pollingTimeoutSec: '300'