Important Note: The ad source debugger works mainly for server side ad sources - client side ad sources will only show partial data.
Server side ad source types: RTB, Prebid Server, Vast Server-Side.
Client side ad source types: Prebid JS, Vast/Vpaid, Direct Video.
How to use the ad source debugger:
Enter “Time In Sec” - For how long in seconds should the ad source be sampled.
Enter “Amount” - How many serving requests should be sampled in the “Time In Sec” time period.
Optional fields:
“Only Bids” - Only show sampled serving requests that resulted in a bid response.
“Only Serving Responses” - Only show sample serving requests that resulted in ad serving.
Click “Debug” and wait a few seconds while it runs.
Click refresh to present data in table below.
Data may take a few seconds to be sampled, try to click refresh a couple of times if no serving request data is showing.
Sampled requests preview:
Data will be lost when debug session ends, if you need it, save it.
You can click the copy icon when hovering on a data cell to copy the cell contents to the clipboard.
What data is presented on each column:
Column Field Name | Description |
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Entity ID | Shows some contextual supply, demand and meta data about the sampled request.
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Serving Request | Shows the populated query params of the initial serving request sent to the aniview server. |
Serving Vars | Serving request variables object after being processed by the aniview server. |
Request | The request sent to the ad-source demand server. Will not show on client side ad sources. |
Response | The response received from the demand server. |
Tag | The ad source tag object showing all the settings and meta data at the time of the ad source that the request was sent according to. |
Serving Response | The Anview ad server serving response object (Only when this request resulted in an ad served). |
For more queries please contact your customer success manager.