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Managing your code scanning configuration

You can manage your existing code scanning configuration with the help of metrics and logging outputs generated by your analysis.

Who can use this feature?

Code scanning is available for the following repository types:

  • Public repositories on GitHub.com
  • Organization-owned repositories on GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, or GitHub Enterprise Server, with GitHub Advanced Security enabled.

About the tool status page for code scanning

The tool status page shows useful information about all of your code scanning tools. If code scanning is not working as you'd expect, the tool status page is a good starting point for debugging problems.

Editing your configuration of default setup

You can edit your existing configuration of default setup for code scanning to better meet your needs.

Set code scanning merge protection

You can use rulesets to set code scanning merge protection for pull requests.

Viewing code scanning logs

You can view the output generated during code scanning analysis in GitHub.