83 Go Static Analysis Tools

Mega-Linter can handle any type of project thanks to its 70+ embedded Linters, its advanced reporting, runnable on any CI system or locally, with assisted installation and configuration, able to apply formatting and fixes

A fast, open-source, static analysis tool for finding bugs and enforcing code standards at editor, commit, and CI time. Its rules look like the code you already write; no abstract syntax trees or regex wrestling. Supports 17+ languages.

Examines Go source code and reports suspicious.

SonarQube is an open platform to manage code quality.

Reports known vulnerabilities in common dependencies and recommends updated packages to minimize breaking changes

Go static analysis that specialises in finding bugs, simplifying code and improving performance.

Alternative to `Go Meta Linter`: GolangCI-Lint is a linters aggregator.

CodeScene is a quality visualization tool for software. Prioritize technical debt, detect delivery risks, and measure organizational aspects. Fully automated.

Identify vulnerabilities that are unique to your code base before they reach production. Leverages the Code Property Graph (CPG) to run its analyses concurrently in a single graph of graphs. Automatically finds business logic flaws in dev like hardcoded secrets and logic bombs

Checks if the code is properly formatted and could not be further simplified.

In-depth static analysis to find issues in verticals of bug risks, security, anti-patterns, performance, documentation and style. Native integrations with GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket. Less than 5% false positives.

Better Code Hub checks your GitHub codebase against 10 engineering guidelines devised by the authority in software quality, Software Improvement Group.

Checks missing or unreferenced package imports.

Prints out coding style mistakes in Go source code.

Check that error return values are used.

Commercial Static Code Analysis which doesn't require pre-compilation.

Automated code review tool integrates with GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab (even self-hosted). Available for JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Go, PHP, Java, Docker, and more. (open-source free)

Scanmycode - Code Scanning/SAST/Linting using many tools/Scanners with One Report

Finds unused code.

Go source code linter that maintains checks which are currently not implemented in other linters.

An automated code reviewing tool. Improving developers' productivity.

Modern repositories include many technologies, each with its own set of linters. With 30+ linters and counting, Trunk makes it dead-simple to identify, install, configure, and run the right linters, static analyzers, and formatters for all your repos.

Statically generates a call graph image and displays it on screen.

Code Analysis to ship Better Code, Faster.

Reports variables that may have been unintentionally shadowed.

Package ast declares the types used to represent syntax trees for Go packages.

Inspects source code for security problems by scanning the Go AST.

Detect ineffectual assignments in Go code.

Finds commonly misspelled English words.

A lightweight static code analyzer designed for developers and security teams. It allows you to analyze and transform source code with an intuitive DSL similar to sed, but for code.

Linter for integrating annotated TODOs with your issue trackers

Universal code beautifier with a GitHub app. Supports HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, Vue, C++, Go, Objective-C, Java, Python, PHP, GraphQL, Markdown, and more.

Find inefficiently packed structs.

Checks whether HTTP response body is closed.

Automated Code Reviews and Technical Debt management platform that supports 12+ languages.

Reports potentially duplicated code.

Identify and remediate cyber threats in a blazingly fast, collaborative environment, with seamless integration in your SDLC. Python, C\C++, Java, C#, PHP and more.

Find unused struct fields.

Detect redundant type conversions.

Wrap and fix Go errors with the new %w verb directive. This tool analyzes fmt.Errorf() calls and reports calls that contain a verb directive that is different than the new %w verb directive introduced in Go v1.13. It's also capable of rewriting calls to use the new %w wrap verb directive.

Finds repeated strings that could be replaced by a constant.

Golang security analysis with a focus on minimizing false positives. It is capable of tracing the source of variables and function arguments to determine whether input sources are safe.

Syntactic and semantic analysis similar to the Go compiler.

Comments on style violations in GitHub pull requests. Supports Coffeescript, Go, HAML, JavaScript, Ruby, SCSS and Swift.

Deep code analysis for GitHub and Bitbucket to find security vulnerabilities and critical code quality issues (using Semmle QL). Automatic code review for pull requests; free for public repositories.

Lizard is an extensible Cyclomatic Complexity Analyzer for many programming languages including C/C++ (doesn't require all the header files or Java imports). It also does copy-paste detection (code clone detection/code duplicate detection) and many other forms of static code analysis. Counts lines of code without comments, CCN (cyclomatic complexity number), token count of functions, parameter count of functions.

Report long lines.

Detect structs that would take less memory if their fields were sorted.

Finds unused arguments in function declarations.

Enables code auditors and security teams to interactively investigate their unique code bases to find business logic flaws and technical vulnerabilities that traditional SASTs cannot. This is done by enabling the analyst to write their own custom queries. Can find hard-coded secrets, authentication issues, and malicious code like rootkits and backdoors.

Vulnerability scanner for dependencies of node.js apps (free for Open Source Projects).

Vulnerability Scanner and Risk Evaluation for containers, serverless and hosts at runtime. ThreatMapper generates runtime BOMs from dependencies and operating system packages, matches against multiple threat feeds, scans for unprotected secrets, and scores issues based on severity and risk-of-exploit.

Find unused function parameters.

Creates reports of over 400 rule patterns for feature detection (e.g. the use of cryptography or version control in apps).

Automated Code Analysis for repos on GitHub or BitBucket.

CI/CD-agnostic DevSecOps platform which combines industry-leading fuzzing engines for finding bugs and visualizing code coverage

Static analyser for finding deadlocks in Go.

Finds assignments/declarations with too many blank identifiers.

Get info on length of functions in a Go package.

Analyzer that helps you to make your Go programs more consistent.

Calculate cyclomatic complexities of functions in Go source code.

Finds N+1 queries (SQL calls in a for loop) in go code

Concurrently runs many linters and normalises their output to a report.

An interactive tool to analyze Golang goroutine dump.

Finds naked returns.

Finds slice declarations that could potentially be preallocated.

A tool for posting review comments from any linter in any code hosting service.

Fast, configurable, extensible, flexible, and beautiful linter for Go. Drop-in replacement of golint.

Static analysis tool for Golang that protects against SQL injections.

A proprietary code quality checker that can be integrated with GitHub.

Multi-language cloud-based static code analysis. History, trends, security hot-spots, pull request analysis and more. Free for open source.

Performs static analysis on raw SQL queries in your Go code base to surface potential runtime errors. It checks for SQL syntax error, identifies unsafe queries that could potentially lead to SQL injections makes sure column count matches value count in INSERT statements and validates table- and column names.

Static analyzer for Go that recommends struct field rearrangements to provide for maximum space/allocation efficiency

Combination of multiple linters to install as a GitHub Action.

Tencent Cloud Code Analysis (TCA for short, code-named CodeDog inside the company early) is a comprehensive platform for code analysis and issue tracking. TCA consist of three components, server, web and client. It integrates of a number of self-developed tools, and also supports dynamic integration of code analysis tools in various programming languages.

Show location of test failures from the stdlib testing module.

Find unused global variables and constants.

Enforces empty lines at the right places.

Checks that no globals are present.

Intelligent software analytics platform that identifies design issues, code issues, duplication and metrics. Supports Java, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, Kotlin and more.

Scan is a free open-source DevSecOps platform for detecting security issues in source code and dependencies. It supports a broad range of languages and CI/CD pipelines.