# Stop the run with an error

Control / error

A variant of [Handle errors and retries](https://meridian.online/operations/handle-errors-and-retries).

Fail the run on purpose, with a message, when a condition or row threshold is met.

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/handle-errors-and-retries/stop-the-run-with-an-error>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet; it would live in how a Protocol runs. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#handle-errors-and-retries)

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 95.7% of 324 rows (variant, version 3).

- Azure Data Factory: [`Fail activity`](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/control-flow-fail-activity) (read 2026-09-27)
- Alteryx Designer: [`Error Message`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/interface-tools/error-message-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Duckle: [`Die / Fail`](https://github.com/slothflowlabs/duckle/blob/f85f8960edfb6efbf4cb89d58a7b32e16df0e867/website/docs/components.html) (read 2026-09-25)
- EasyMorph: [`Halt/Warn on condition`](https://help.easymorph.com/doku.php?id=transformations:halt) (read 2026-09-27)
- AWS Glue: [`assertErrorThreshold`](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/aws-glue-api-crawler-pyspark-extensions-dynamic-frame.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`Abort`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/pipeline/transforms/abort.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`Abort workflow`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/workflow/actions/abort.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Pentaho Data Integration: [`Abort`](https://docs.pentaho.com/pdia-data-integration/9.3-data-integration/pdi-transformation-steps-reference-overview) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Throw Custom Error`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/extensions/Custom%20Operators/utility/throw_custom_error.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Throw Exception`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/utility/process_control/exceptions/throw_exception.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tDie`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/logs-and-errors/logs-and-errors-component) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tJobFailure`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/talend-cloud/talend-cloud-component) (read 2026-09-27)