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🔍 Universal Adobe Debugger: Adobe Analytics, AEP & Launch Debugging Made Simple 🦝 Universal Adobe Debugger is a powerful Chrome extension for debugging Adobe Analytics, Adobe Experience Platform (AEP), Adobe Web SDK, and Adobe Launch (Tags) implementations. Built by analysts for analysts, this tool helps you validate tracking, inspect payloads, and troubleshoot Adobe Experience Cloud integrations directly from the browser console. Simply open DevTools and trigger Adobe Analytics or Web SDK calls to instantly view structured, readable debugging output. 🚀 Key Features • Adobe Analytics Debugging Log and inspect Adobe Analytics server calls (AppMeasurement, s.t, s.tl) directly in the console for faster troubleshooting and QA validation. • Adobe Launch (Tags) Debugging Access rule execution details and implementation diagnostics to verify Launch configurations with ease. • AEP Web SDK & XDM Logging Monitor Adobe Experience Platform Web SDK requests and XDM payloads with clean, formatted console output — no more digging through nested objects. • Library Replacement Replace Adobe Launch libraries seamlessly to test and validate implementations in real time. • Analytics & Consent Snippets Access a curated collection of debugging snippets for analytics validation and consent troubleshooting. 🎯 Why Use Universal Adobe Debugger? Validate Adobe Analytics implementations faster Debug AEP Web SDK network requests efficiently Verify Adobe Launch rules and data layer mappings Improve tracking accuracy and data quality Streamline QA workflows for analysts and developers Whether you're an Adobe Analytics specialist, AEP implementer, Launch developer, or digital analyst, Universal Adobe Debugger helps you debug smarter and ship cleaner data. 🛠️ Contributions & Feedback Found a bug or have a feature request? Contributions and feedback are welcome. Visit our GitHub repository at https://github.com/cthae/Adobe-Launch-Debugger to report issues or suggest improvements. Changelog: 2025-04-06 -> 1.25 * [x] Add an option to disable displaying of the Target "decisioning" web sdk requests. To reduce clutter. * [x] Identify "decisioning" web sdk requests as Target rather than PV. Correct the call name. 2025-03-30 -> 1.24 * [x] Add a color picker set of settings that would allow users configure the colors of console printouts. * [x] Make a snippet shortcut to delete all cookies and local storage present on the active tab. * [x] Make OT printouts not fuzzy again. 2025-03-09 -> 1.23 * [x] CSS refactory * [x] Better bookmarks design * [x] Add an option for the light mode for the extension's UI. * [x] _satellite decided to become touchy about setDebug() using a truthy arg. Replace 1 with true. 2024-12-10 -> 1.22 * [x] Reimplementation of Adobe Experience Cloud Bookmarks * [x] Rename tabs to icons * [x] Move the redirects tab to somewhere else. To Settings and Home probably * [x] Make a New Tab for bookmarks * [x] Add a setting to choose the tab that would be opened by default when the popup renders (Home/Settings/Bookmarks) * [x] Clean up redirections. Add a message for when there's no redirections yet. 2024-11-08 -> 1.21 * [x] Change the extension icon depending on the env: * grey for when the extension hasn't yet executed all code or doesn't have the permission to do so; * green indicates that the Launch env is production; * yellow indicates that the Launch env is dev or staging; * red indicates that the Launch library is not loaded or loaded incompletely. Basically, _satellite?.environment?.stage is falsy. The rest of the functionality won't be stopped by this, however. * [x] Update the extension icon. * [x] Disable Launch UI improvements on by default. * [x] Multiple small bugfixes and refactories. 2024-10-04 -> 1.20 * [x] Add onInstalled/onStartup callbacks to set the default set of settings specifically for those who don't open the popup after installation. * [x] Support for Mozilla FF. Same extension. Cross-browsers. Seems like mostly only background will have to be reimplemented, but many APIs may be off. We'll see. 2024-10-01 -> 1.10 * [x] Appmeasurement: Prettify the product string printing. * [x] Appmeasurement: Add transaction id in the product string prettifier. * [x] Implement Launch UI improvements POC: * [x] Launch UI: Add the red indicator whenever a lib is not selected. * [x] Launch UI: Add a hint about how to change the Launch UI via Chrome flags. * [x] Add an option to print general alloy config in the snippets tab. Make sure it does so for all Alloy instances. 2024-09-02 -> 1.09.1 * [x] Rename the content-script.js to something more interesting. It's visible in the console and can be filtered by. * [x] Web SDK: Further improve the custom logging, allowing shorthands: p12/c12/v12/e12/l2. * [x] Apply all the shorthanded custom logging to Appmeasurement logging too. 2024-08-26 -> 1.09.1 * [x] Fix a bug in custom logging, in event shortcuts for the data.__adobe.analytics usecases. * [x] Fix a bug in custom logging, in prop shortcuts for the data.__adobe.analytics usecases. 2024-08-25 -> 1.09: * [x] Web SDK: Expose the event type in the logging header. * [x] Web SDK: Improve the custom logger to also check the data.__adobe.analytics object when using shortcuts. * [x] Web SDK: Make it easier for non-technical people to use the custom logging: don't require them to specify the full path to evars, props or events for xdm payloads. If users ask for evars and it's an xdm event, just add the correct path to it. * [x] Reimplement page load time to something like performance.getEntriesByType("navigation")[0]?.duration 2024-08-20 -> 1.08.1: * [x] Increased the delay at which the response is no longer expected to six seconds. Because AA can be very slow to
| Extension | Rating | Users | Pricing | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Universal Adobe Debugger (original) | 5.0 | 956 | Free | |
| Adobe Acrobat: PDF edit, convert, sign tools | 4.4 | 311M+ | Freemium |
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