Ad inspector

AI-generated Key Takeaways

• Ad Inspector is an in-app tool that enables real-time analysis of test ad requests, helping you to inspect ad units, check ad fill rates, identify errors, and view bidding and mediation details.

• It offers multiple ways to launch, including a debug menu, custom gestures, and programmatically via the MobileAds.OpenAdInspector API, and it does not require any additional coding to use.

• The Ad Inspector includes a detailed SDK Request Log that provides insights into mediation waterfalls, bidding auctions, errors, latency, and other crucial ad unit information, and these reports can be exported.

• You can perform single ad source testing to isolate and evaluate the performance of specific bidding or waterfall mediation sources, forcing the app to use only the selected source.

• The Ad inspector allows you to view privacy signals transmitted in ad requests, such as IABTCF_gdprApplies, IABTCF_AddtlConsent, and IABTCF_TCString, and to debug any privacy-related issues.

Select platform: Android iOS Unity Flutter

Ad inspector is an in-app overlay that lets you perform real-time analysis of test ad requests directly within a mobile app. For a list of ad inspector features, see Ad inspector (Beta).

Warning: Enabling ad inspector increases memory usage of the Google Mobile Ads Unity plugin for test devices.

This guide covers how to perform the following:

• Launch ad inspector
• Verify adapter integrations
• Test ad units
• Troubleshoot ad units
• Troubleshoot privacy settings

Prerequisites

Before you can use ad inspector, you must complete the following tasks:

• Create an Ad Manager account. For more details, see Develop ads for the Google Mobile Ads SDK and Identify your Ad Manager app ID.
• Complete the Get started steps.
• Install the Google Mobile Ads Unity plugin version 7.0.0 or higher.

• Add your device as a test device. To add a test device, see Enable test devices or Inspect mobile app ad delivery.

  Important: Ad inspector launches only on test devices.