ADS log description - AWS Elemental MediaTailor
ADS Logs PropertiesadContentadPlaylistUrisavailcreativeAdrequestheadersskippedAdslateAdtrackingEventsvastAdvastMediaFilevastResponsevodCreativeOffsetsvodCreativeOffset

ADS log description

This section describes the structure and contents of the ADS log description. To explore on your own in a JSON editor, use the listing at ADS log JSON schema.

Each event in the ADS log contains the standard fields that are generated by CloudWatch Logs. For information, see Analyze log data with CloudWatch Logs insights.

ADS Logs Properties

This section describes the properties of the ADS logs.

ADS Logs Properties
Property Type Required Description
adsRequestUrl string false The full URL of the ADS request made by MediaTailor.
avail object of type avail false Information about an avail that MediaTailor fills with ads. Currently, for the FILLED_AVAIL event type, this is the plan created by MediaTailor when it first encounters the avail. How the avail is eventually filled may vary from this plan, depending on how the content plays out.
awsAccountId string true The AWS account ID for the MediaTailor configuration that was used for the session.
customerId string true The hashed version of the AWS account ID, which you can use to correlate multiple log entries.
eventDescription string true A short description of the event that triggered this log message, provided by the MediaTailor service. By default, this is empty. Example: Got VAST response.
eventTimestamp string true The date and time of the event.
eventType string true The code for the event that triggered this log message. Example: VAST_RESPONSE.
originId string true The configuration name from the MediaTailor configuration. This is different from the video content source, which is also part of the configuration.
requestHeaders array of type requestheaders false The headers that MediaTailor included with the ADS request. Typically, the logs include these when a request to the ADS fails, to help with troubleshooting.
requestId string true The MediaTailor request ID, which you can use to correlate multiple log entries for the same request.
sessionId string true The unique numeric identifier that MediaTailor assigned to the player session. All requests that a player makes for a session have the same session ID. Example: e039fd39-09f0-46b2-aca9-9871cc116cde.
sessionType string (legal values: [DASH, HLS]) true The player's stream type.
vastAd object of type vastAd false Information about a single ad parsed from the VAST response.
vastResponse object of type vastResponse false Information about the VAST response that MediaTailor received from the ADS.
vodCreativeOffsets object of type vodCreativeOffsets false A map that indicates the time offsets in the manifest where MediaTailor will insert avails, based on the VMAP response.
vodVastResponseTimeOffset number false The VMAP specific time offset for VOD ad insertion.

adContent

This section describes the properties of the ADS logs adContent.

ADS Logs adContent Properties
Property Type Required Description
adPlaylistUris object of type adPlaylistUris false The mapping from the origin manifest for a variant to the ad manifest for the variant. For DASH, this contains a single entry, because all variants are represented in a single DASH manifest.

adPlaylistUris

This section describes the properties of the ADS logs adPlaylistUris.

ADS Logs adPlaylistUris Properties
Property Type Required Description
<any string> string false The URL of the ad manifest for the specific variant.

avail

This section describes the properties of the ADS logs avail.

ADS Logs avail Properties
Property Type Required Description
availId string true The unique identifier for this avail. For HLS, this is the media sequence number where the avail begins. For DASH, this is the period ID.
creativeAds array of type creativeAd true The ads that MediaTailor inserted into the avail.
fillRate number true The rate at which the ads fill the avail duration, from 0.0 (for 0%) to 1.0 (for 100%).
filledDuration number true The sum of the durations of all the ads inserted into the avail.
numAds number true The number of ads that MediaTailor inserted into the avail.
originAvailDuration number true The duration of the avail as specified in the content stream from the origin (CUE_OUT or SCTE).
skippedAds array of type skippedAd false The ads that MediaTailor didn't insert, for reasons like TRANSCODE_IN_PROGRESS and TRANSCODE_ERROR.
slateAd object of type slateAd true Information about the slate ad, which MediaTailor uses to fill any unfilled segments in the avail.

creativeAd

This section describes the properties of the ADS logs creativeAd.

ADS Logs creativeAd Properties
Property Type Required Description
adContent object of type adContent true Information about the content of the inserted ad.
creativeUniqueId string true The unique identifier for the ad, used as a key for transcoding. This is the ID field for the creative in the VAST response, if available. Otherwise, it's the mezzanine URL of the ad.
trackingEvents object of type trackingEvents true The tracking beacon URLs for the various tracking events for the ad. The keys are the event names, and the values are a list of beacon URLs.
transcodedAdDuration number true The duration of the ad, calculated from the transcoded asset.
uri string true The URL of the mezzanine version of the ad, which is the input to the transcoder.
vastDuration number true The duration of the ad, as parsed from the VAST response.

requestheaders

This section describes the properties of the ADS logs requestheaders.

ADS Logs requestheaders Properties
Property Type Required Description
name string true The name of the header.
value string true The value of the header.

skippedAd

This section describes the properties of the ADS logs skippedAd.

ADS Logs skippedAd Properties
Property Type Required Description
adMezzanineUrl string true The mezzanine URL of the skipped ad.
creativeUniqueId string true The unique identifier for the ad, used as a key for transcoding. This is the ID field for the creative in the VAST response, if available. Otherwise, it's the mezzanine URL of the ad.
skippedReason string true The code that indicates why the ad wasn't inserted. Example: TRANSCODE_IN_PROGRESS.
transcodedAdDuration number false The duration of the ad, calculated from the transcoded asset.
vastDuration number true The duration of the ad, as parsed from the VAST response.

slateAd

This section describes the properties of the ADS logs slateAd.

ADS Logs slateAd Properties
Property Type Required Description
adContent object of type adContent true Information about the content of the inserted ad.
creativeUniqueId string true The unique identifier for the ad, used as a key for transcoding. This is the ID field for the creative in the VAST response, if available. Otherwise, it's the mezzanine URL of the ad.
transcodedAdDuration number true The duration of the ad, calculated from the transcoded asset.
uri string true The URL of the mezzanine version of the ad, which is the input to the transcoder.

trackingEvents

This section describes the properties of the ADS logs trackingEvents.

ADS Logs trackingEvents Properties
Property Type Required Description
<any string> array of type string false The list of beacon URLs for the specified tracking event (impression, complete, and so on)

vastAd

This section describes the properties of the ADS logs vastAd.

ADS Logs vastAd Properties
Property Type Required Description
adSystem string true The value of the AdSystem tag in the VAST response.
adTitle string true The media files that are available for the ad in the VAST response.
creativeAdId string true The value of the adId attribute of the Creative tag in the VAST response.
creativeId string true The value of the id attribute of the Creative tag in the VAST response.
duration number true The approximate duration of the ad, based on the duration tag in the linear element of the VAST response.
trackingEvents object of type trackingEvents true The tracking beacon URLs for the various tracking events for the ad. The keys are the event names, and the values are a list of beacon URLs.
vastAdId string true The value of the id attribute of the Ad tag in the VAST response
vastAdTagUri string false The VMAP-specific redirect URI for an ad.
vastMediaFiles array of type vastMediaFile true The list of available media files for the ad in the VAST response.

vastMediaFile

This section describes the properties of the ADS logs vastMediaFile.

ADS Logs vastMediaFile Properties
Property Type Required Description
apiFramework string true The API framework needed to manage the media file. Example: VPAID.
bitrate number true The bitrate of the media file.
delivery string true The protocol used for the media file, set to either progressive or streaming.
height number true The pixel height of the media file.
id string true The value of the id attribute of the MediaFile tag.
type string true The MIME type of the media file, taken from the type attribute of the MediaFile tag.
uri string true The URL of the mezzanine version of the ad, which is the input to the transcoder.
width number true The pixel width of the media file.

vastResponse

This section describes the properties of the ADS logs vastResponse.

ADS Logs vastResponse Properties
Property Type Required Description
errors array of type string true The error URLs parsed from the Error tags in the VAST response.
vastAds array of type vastAd true The ads parsed from the VAST response.
version string true The VAST specification version, parsed from the version attribute of the VAST tag in the response.

vodCreativeOffsets

This section describes the properties of the ADS logs vodCreativeOffsets.

ADS Logs vodCreativeOffsets Properties
Property Type Required Description
<any string> array of type vodCreativeOffset false A mapping from a time offset in the manifest to a list of ads to insert at this time.

vodCreativeOffset

This section describes the properties of the ADS logs vodCreativeOffset.

ADS Logs vodCreativeOffset Properties
Property Type Required Description
adContent object of type adContent true Information about the content of the inserted ad.
creativeUniqueId string true The unique identifier for the ad, used as a key for transcoding. This is the ID field for the creative in the VAST response, if available. Otherwise, it's the mezzanine URL of the ad.
trackingEvents object of type trackingEvents true The tracking beacon URLs for the various tracking events for the ad. The keys are the event names, and the values are a list of beacon URLs.
transcodedAdDuration number true The duration of the ad, calculated from the transcoded asset.
uri string true The URL of the mezzanine version of the ad, which is the input to the transcoder.
vastDuration number true The duration of the ad, as parsed from the VAST response.