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Reference for code scanning with CodeQL

Find information to apply to your work with CodeQL code scanning.

Recommended hardware resources for running CodeQL

Recommended specifications (RAM, CPU cores, and disk) for running CodeQL analysis on self-hosted machines, based on the size of your codebase.

Telemetry in CodeQL for Visual Studio Code

If VS Code telemetry is enabled, GitHub will collect usage data and metrics for the purposes of helping the core developers to improve the CodeQL extension for VS Code.

Queries for CodeQL analysis

Explore the CodeQL queries that code scanning uses to analyze code.

Using the advanced functionality of the CodeQL CLI

You can use the CodeQL CLI to locally develop, test and run CodeQL queries on software projects.

CodeQL CLI commands manual

Reference information for the commands available in the most recent release of CodeQL CLI.