Ad Source Debugger

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

  1. Enter “Time In Sec” - For how long in seconds should the ad source be sampled.

  2. Enter “Amount” - How many serving requests should be sampled in the “Time In Sec” time period.

  3. Optional fields:

    1. “Only Bids” - Only show sampled serving requests that resulted in a bid response.

    2. “Only Serving Responses” - Only show sample serving requests that resulted in ad serving.

  4. Click “Debug” and wait a few seconds while it runs.

  5. 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

  1. Data will be lost when debug session ends, if you need it, save it.

  2. You can click the copy icon when hovering on a data cell to copy the cell contents to the clipboard.

Result data glossary

Column Field Name

Description

Column Field Name

Description

Entity ID

Shows some contextual supply, demand and meta data about the sampled request.

  1. Ad source name and id

  2. Channel name and id

  3. Supply - Name of network, publisher or partner.

  4. Date and time

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.
Will not show on client side ad sources.

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).
Will not show on client side ad sources.

For more queries please contact your customer success manager.