# Notify

**Container(s):** stellaops-notify-web
**Slot:** 29  |  **Port:** 8080  |  **Consumer Group:** notify
**Resource Tier:** medium

## Purpose
Notify is the notification routing and delivery service for the Stella Ops platform. It manages notification channels, templates, preferences, routing rules, and delivery pipelines with plugin-based channel support. It handles alert dispatching, escalation workflows, and notification lifecycle tracking with PostgreSQL-backed persistence.

## API Surface
- `notify` (via Router) — notification submission, channel management, preference CRUD, template management, delivery status, routing rules, audit trail

## Storage
PostgreSQL schema `notify` (via `Postgres:Notify:ConnectionString`); plugin-based channel storage

## Background Workers
- None (web-only service; delivery is synchronous or plugin-delegated)