# Send rows over a socket or pipe

Publish / stream

A variant of [Send to a stream or queue](https://meridian.online/operations/send-to-a-stream-or-queue).

Write rows straight to a listening network socket, a UDP or syslog endpoint, a named pipe or another instance, with no broker in between.

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/send-to-a-stream-or-queue/send-rows-over-a-socket-or-pipe>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#send-to-a-stream-or-queue)

## What other tools call it

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

- Apache NiFi: [`Network sender processors (family)`](https://nifi.apache.org/components/) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache NiFi: [`SiteToSiteReportingRecordSink`](https://nifi.apache.org/components/org.apache.nifi.reporting.sink.SiteToSiteReportingRecordSink/) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache NiFi: [`UDPEventRecordSink`](https://nifi.apache.org/components/org.apache.nifi.record.sink.event.UDPEventRecordSink/) (read 2026-09-27)
- Pentaho Data Integration: [`Socket writer`](https://docs.pentaho.com/pdia-data-integration/9.3-data-integration/pdi-transformation-steps-reference-overview) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tNamedPipeOutput`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/namedpipe/namedpipe-component) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tSocketOutput`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/socket/socket-component) (read 2026-09-27)