Auto-label your GitHub PRs with Sonar Scans

This guide demonstrates how to set up an automation in Port that applies color-coded labels to your GitHub pull requests based on SonarCloud scan reports. These labels help you classify vulnerabilities, code smells, security hotspots, and bugs right from the pull request view.

Common use cases

Enforce code quality standards: Highlight PRs with poor test coverage, high duplication, or critical issues.
Encourage developer accountability: Make quality regressions visible and traceable at the PR level.

Prerequisites

This guide assumes the following:

You have a Port account and have completed the onboarding process.
Port's GitHub app is installed in your account.
Port's SonarQube integration is installed in your account.

Set up data model

To connect scan data with the correct pull requests, you'll need to link the Pull Request blueprint with the SonarQube Analysis blueprint.

Follow the Connect GitHub PR to SonarQube analysis guide to set this up.

Set up automation

Once the SonarQube scan entities are linked to their corresponding pull requests, you can configure an automation in Port that triggers a GitHub workflow on PR updates and applies Sonar-based labels directly to the pull request.

This setup involves two parts:

Adding a GitHub PAT as a Port secret.
Defining the automation in Port.

Add Port secrets

To add a secret to your portal:

Click on the ... button in the top right corner of your Port application.
Click on Credentials.
Click on the Secrets tab.
Click on + Secret and add the following secrets:
- GITHUB_TOKEN - A GitHub Personal Access Token (classic) with repo and workflow scopes.

Define automation backend

Go to the Automations page in your portal.
Click on the + Automation button.

Copy and paste the following JSON configuration into the editor:

Apply SonarCloud label automation (Click to expand)

Replace placeholders

Make sure to replace <YOUR_GITHUB_ORG> and <YOUR_GITHUB_REPO> in the url field below with the actual organization and repository where your apply-sonar-scan-on-pr.yaml workflow resides.

{
    "identifier": "addLabelOnGithubPR",
    "title": "Add Sonar Scan Label On PR Updated",
    "description": "Automation to add Sonar scan label to the GitHub PR upon update",
    "trigger": {
        "type": "automation",
        "event": {
        "type": "ENTITY_UPDATED",
        "blueprintIdentifier": "githubPullRequest"
        },
        "condition": {
        "type": "JQ",
        "expressions": [
            ".diff.after.relations.sonarAnalysis != null"
        ],
        "combinator": "and"
        }
    },
    "invocationMethod": {
        "type": "WEBHOOK",
        "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/<YOUR_GITHUB_ORG>/<YOUR_GITHUB_REPO>/actions/workflows/apply-sonar-scan-on-pr.yaml/dispatches",
        "method": "POST",
        "headers": {
        "Accept": "application/vnd.github+json",
        "Authorization": "Bearer {{ .secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}",
        "Content-Type": "application/json"
        },
        "body": {
        "ref": "main",
        "inputs": {
            "prNumber": "{{ .event.diff.after.properties.prNumber | tostring }}",
            "repository": "{{ .event.diff.after.relations.repository }}",
            "sonarEntity": "{{ .event.diff.after.relations.sonarAnalysis }}",
            "runID": "{{ .run.id }}"
        }
        }
    },
    "publish": true
}

Click Save.

Create the GitHub workflow

Now let us define the GitHub Actions workflow that receives the input and applies labels to the pull request.

Dedicated Workflows Repository

We recommend creating a dedicated repository for the workflows that are used by Port actions.

In your dedicated workflow repository, ensure you have a .github/workflows directory.

Create a new file named apply-sonar-scan-on-pr.yaml

Copy and paste the following workflow configuration:

Apply SonarCloud labels workflow (Click to expand)

name: Apply Sonar Scan on PR

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      prNumber:
        required: true
        type: string
      repository:
        required: true
        type: string
      sonarEntity:
        required: true
        type: string
      runID:
        required: true
        type: string
jobs:
  analyze_sonar:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    env:
      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.MY_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Fetch Port Access Token
        id: fetch_port_token
        run: |
          PORT_ACCESS_TOKEN=$(curl -s -L 'https://api.getport.io/v1/auth/access_token' \
            -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
            -H 'Accept: application/json' \
            -d '{
              "clientId": "${{ secrets.PORT_CLIENT_ID }}",
              "clientSecret": "${{ secrets.PORT_CLIENT_SECRET }}"
            }' | jq -r '.accessToken')
          echo "PORT_ACCESS_TOKEN=$PORT_ACCESS_TOKEN" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"

      - name: Get Sonar Entity from Port
        id: get_sonar
        run: |
          sonar_entity_id="${{ github.event.inputs.sonarEntity }}"
          echo "🔍 Fetching Sonar entity $sonar_entity_id"

          sonar_response=$(curl -s -X GET "https://api.port.io/v1/blueprints/sonarQubeAnalysis/entities/$sonar_entity_id" \
            -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
            -H "Authorization: Bearer ${{ env.PORT_ACCESS_TOKEN }}")

          echo "$sonar_response"

          FIXED_ISSUES=$(echo "$sonar_response" | jq '.entity.properties.fixedIssues // 0')
          NEW_ISSUES=$(echo "$sonar_response" | jq '.entity.properties.newIssues // 0')
          COVERAGE=$(echo "$sonar_response" | jq '.entity.properties.coverage // 0')
          DUPLICATIONS=$(echo "$sonar_response" | jq '.entity.properties.duplications // 0')

          echo "FIXED_ISSUES=$FIXED_ISSUES" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
          echo "NEW_ISSUES=$NEW_ISSUES" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
          echo "COVERAGE=$COVERAGE" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
          echo "DUPLICATIONS=$DUPLICATIONS" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"

      - name: Classify and Apply Sonar Labels
        id: apply_pr_label
        run: |
          set -e

          repo="${{ github.event.inputs.repository }}"
          owner="${{ github.repository_owner }}"
          pr_number=$(echo "${{ github.event.inputs.prNumber }}" | grep -o '[0-9]\+$')

          # Classify coverage
          if (( $(echo "$COVERAGE < 25" | bc -l) )); then
            coverage_label="Sonar: Coverage - 0-25%"
          elif (( $(echo "$COVERAGE < 50" | bc -l) )); then
            coverage_label="Sonar: Coverage - 25-50%"
          elif (( $(echo "$COVERAGE < 75" | bc -l) )); then
            coverage_label="Sonar: Coverage - 50-75%"
          else
            coverage_label="Sonar: Coverage - 75-100%"
          fi

          # Classify new issues
          if (( NEW_ISSUES == 0 )); then
            new_issues_label="Sonar: Issues - A"
          elif (( NEW_ISSUES <= 5 )); then
            new_issues_label="Sonar: Issues - B"
          elif (( NEW_ISSUES <= 10 )); then
            new_issues_label="Sonar: Issues - C"
          elif (( NEW_ISSUES <= 20 )); then
            new_issues_label="Sonar: Issues - D"
          else
            new_issues_label="Sonar: Issues - E"
          fi

          # Classify fixed issues
          if (( FIXED_ISSUES == 0 )); then
            fixed_issues_label="Sonar: Fixed - A"
          elif (( FIXED_ISSUES <= 5 )); then
            fixed_issues_label="Sonar: Fixed - B"
          elif (( FIXED_ISSUES <= 10 )); then
            fixed_issues_label="Sonar: Fixed - C"
          elif (( FIXED_ISSUES <= 20 )); then
            fixed_issues_label="Sonar: Fixed - D"
          else
            fixed_issues_label="Sonar: Fixed - E"
          fi

          # Classify duplications
          if (( $(echo "$DUPLICATIONS < 5" | bc -l) )); then
            dup_label="Sonar: Duplication - A"
          elif (( $(echo "$DUPLICATIONS < 10" | bc -l) )); then
            dup_label="Sonar: Duplication - B"
          elif (( $(echo "$DUPLICATIONS < 20" | bc -l) )); then
            dup_label="Sonar: Duplication - C"
          elif (( $(echo "$DUPLICATIONS < 30" | bc -l) )); then
            dup_label="Sonar: Duplication - D"
          else
            dup_label="Sonar: Duplication - E"
          fi

          labels_to_apply=("$coverage_label" "$new_issues_label" "$fixed_issues_label" "$dup_label")

          echo "🏷️ Will apply labels: ${labels_to_apply[*]}"

          # Define a function to assign colors based on grade
          get_label_color() {
            label="$1"
            if [[ "$label" == *" - A" || "$label" == *"75-100%" ]]; then
              echo "2cbe4e"  # Green
            elif [[ "$label" == *" - B" || "$label" == *"50-75%" ]]; then
              echo "a2eeef"  # Light blue
            elif [[ "$label" == *" - C" || "$label" == *"25-50%" ]]; then
              echo "fbca04"  # Yellow
            elif [[ "$label" == *" - D" || "$label" == *"0-25%" ]]; then
              echo "f66a0a"  # Orange
            else
              echo "d73a4a"  # Red for E or anything else
            fi
          }

          # Create labels if they don’t exist, using dynamic colors
          for label in "${labels_to_apply[@]}"; do
            color=$(get_label_color "$label")
            echo "🛠️ Ensuring label exists: $label with color #$color"
            curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" -X POST "https://api.github.com/repos/$owner/$repo/labels" \
              -H "Authorization: Bearer $GH_TOKEN" \
              -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
              -d "{\"name\": \"$label\", \"color\": \"$color\"}" | grep -qE "201|422"
          done

          # Apply to PR
          echo "🏷️ Applying labels to PR #$pr_number..."
          curl -s -X POST "https://api.github.com/repos/$owner/$repo/issues/$pr_number/labels" \
            -H "Authorization: Bearer $GH_TOKEN" \
            -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
            -d "{\"labels\": [\"${labels_to_apply[0]}\", \"${labels_to_apply[1]}\", \"${labels_to_apply[2]}\", \"${labels_to_apply[3]}\"]}"


      - name: Update Port action status
        if: always()
        run: |
          if [ "${{ steps.apply_pr_label.outcome }}" == "failure" ]; then
            STATUS="FAILURE"
          else
            STATUS="SUCCESS"
          fi
      
          curl -L -X PATCH "https://api.port.io/v1/actions/runs/${{ github.event.inputs.runID }}" \
          -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
          -H "Accept: application/json" \
          -H "Authorization: Bearer ${{ env.PORT_ACCESS_TOKEN }}" \
          -d '{
            "status": "'"$STATUS"'",
            "statusLabel": "'"$STATUS"'",
            "link": "'"${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}"'",
            "summary": "Pull request labeling completed with status: '"$STATUS"'"
          }'

Required GitHub Secrets

For this workflow to function properly, you need to add the following secrets to your GitHub repository:

PORT_CLIENT_ID: The client ID of your Port account.
PORT_CLIENT_SECRET: The client ID of your Port account.
MY_GITHUB_TOKEN: The fine grained GitHub personal access token with Read and Write access to issues, pull requests across all repositories in your organization.

Commit and push the changes to your repository.

Once a pull request associated with a SonarCloud analysis is updated, the automation will be triggered automatically. It will evaluate the latest scan results and apply color-coded labels to the PR, reflecting the quality status of the code.

Common use cases​

Prerequisites​

Set up data model​

Set up automation​

Add Port secrets​

Define automation backend​

Create the GitHub workflow​