# Send a notification

Publish / notify

email, chat message, alert

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/send-a-notification>

## Status

A feature, not a step.

It lives in how a Protocol runs. [src/manifest.rs in arcform at fc62d6f](https://github.com/meridian-online/arcform/blob/fc62d6f861dd/src/manifest.rs)

## Variants

- Post to a chat or push service: Post a message to a chat channel or a push notification service such as Slack, Teams, ntfy or Pushover.
- Send an email: Send an email, with optional attachments or the data in its body, to fixed recipients when the run reaches a step.
- [Send an email for each row](https://meridian.online/operations/send-a-notification/send-an-email-for-each-row): Send one email per input row, with recipients, subject and body taken from the row's columns.
- Send an alert to a monitoring system: Raise an alert in a monitoring or notification system, such as a Nagios check, an SNMP trap or an SNS topic.
- Other notifications: Signal a person in other ways, such as raising an issue on a team board or playing a sound.

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 86.2% of 312 rows (exact class, version 2).

- Alteryx Designer: [`Email`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/reporting/email-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Duckle: [`Email (SMTP)`](https://github.com/slothflowlabs/duckle/blob/f85f8960edfb6efbf4cb89d58a7b32e16df0e867/website/docs/components.html) (read 2026-09-25)
- EasyMorph: [`Board/issue command`](https://help.easymorph.com/doku.php?id=transformations:boardissuecommand) (read 2026-09-27)
- EasyMorph: [`Play sound`](https://help.easymorph.com/doku.php?id=transformations:play) (read 2026-09-27)
- EasyMorph: [`Raise issue`](https://help.easymorph.com/doku.php?id=transformations:raiseissue) (read 2026-09-27)
- EasyMorph: [`Send email`](https://help.easymorph.com/doku.php?id=transformations:sendemail) (read 2026-09-27)
- EasyMorph: [`Send message to Pushover`](https://help.easymorph.com/doku.php?id=transformations:sendpushovermessage) (read 2026-09-27)
- EasyMorph: [`Send message to ntfy`](https://help.easymorph.com/doku.php?id=transformations:sendntfymessage) (read 2026-09-27)
- EasyMorph: [`Slack Bot`](https://help.easymorph.com/doku.php?id=transformations:slackbot) (read 2026-09-27)
- EasyMorph: [`Teams Bot`](https://help.easymorph.com/doku.php?id=transformations:teamsbot) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`AWS SNS notify`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/pipeline/transforms/aws-sns-notify.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`Mail`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/workflow/actions/mail.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`Mail`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/pipeline/transforms/mail.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`Send Nagios passive check`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/workflow/actions/sendnagiospassivecheck.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`Send SNMP trap`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/workflow/actions/snmptrap.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- KNIME Analytics Platform: [`Send Email`](https://api.hub.knime.com/nodes/*h0_xPCuIhaI9W7us?details=full) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache NiFi: [`EmailRecordSink`](https://nifi.apache.org/components/org.apache.nifi.record.sink.EmailRecordSink/) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache NiFi: [`PublishSlack`](https://nifi.apache.org/components/org.apache.nifi.processors.slack.PublishSlack/) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache NiFi: [`PutEmail`](https://nifi.apache.org/components/org.apache.nifi.processors.standard.PutEmail/) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache NiFi: [`SlackRecordSink`](https://nifi.apache.org/components/org.apache.nifi.services.slack.SlackRecordSink/) (read 2026-09-27)
- Pentaho Data Integration: [`Mail`](https://docs.pentaho.com/pdia-data-integration/9.3-data-integration/pdi-transformation-steps-reference-overview) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Send Mail`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/utility/misc/send_mail_attachments.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tSendMail`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/mail/mail-component) (read 2026-09-27)
