About Project Auditor

Project Auditor is an experimental static analysis tool that analyzes assets, settings, and scripts of the Unity project and produces a report that contains the following:

• Code and Settings Diagnostics: a list of possible problems that might affect performance, memory and other areas.
• BuildReport: timing and size information of the last build.
• Assets information

Requirements

• Project Auditor is compatible with Unity versions from 2018.4 to the latest Long-Term Support (recommended).
• .NET 4.x is required. Check the Project Settings to make sure a compatible .NET is selected.

Note: The most recent Project Auditor version to support 2017 or earlier is 0.5.0-preview.

Disclaimer

This package is available as an experimental package, so it is not ready for production use. The features and documentation in this package might change before it is verified for release.

Installation

To install this package, refer to the instructions that match your Unity Editor version:

Version 2021.1 and later

To install this package, follow the instructions for adding a package by name in the Unity Editor. The package's name is com.unity.project-auditor .

Version 2020.3 and earlier

To install this package, follow the instructions for installing hidden packages.

How to Use

The Project Auditor editor window can be opened via Window => Analysis => Project Auditor. Click the Analyze button, then select a View from the drop-down menu to review the list of potential issues to determine whether they are actual problems in your project. Every View provides:

• A series of filters to narrow down the visible list of issues
• The ability to "Mute" issues which have been investigated and found not to be a problem
• The ability to export the View to a .csv file for use in build reports or automated testing

For more information, check the Getting started guide.

For information on a specific view, check the corresponding page.

Diagnostics

• Code
• Settings

Compiler Messages

• C# Compiler Messages
• Shader Compiler Messages

Code and Assemblies Information

• Assemblies
• Generics

Assets Information

• Resources
• Shaders
• Shader Variants

Build Information (Requires Unity 2019.4 or newer)

• Build Steps
• Build Size

Table of contents

• Contents

Reporting issues

If you have issues running Project Auditor in your Unity project, please report them on the GitHub repository.

Package contents

The following table indicates the package directory structure:

Location	Description
Data	Contains the issue definition database.
Documentation~	Contains documentation files.
Editor	Contains all editor scripts: Project Auditor and external DLLs.
Editor/UI	Project Auditor Editor window.
Tests	Contains all scripts required to test the package.

Document revision history

Date	Reason
Mar 9, 2023	Added table of contents and updated installation instructions
Mar 11, 2022	Updated links to view-specific pages
Jul 23, 2021	Added view-specific pages
Apr 9, 2021	Updated index page with more detail
Feb 15, 2021	Updated documentation
Oct 16, 2020	Added information about command line execution
May 21, 2020	Expanded Using Project Auditor section
Dec 4, 2019	First draft.