Extraction Pipelines Runs are CDF objects to store statuses related to an extraction pipeline. The supported statuses are: success, failure and seen. The statuses are related to two different types of operation of the extraction pipeline. Success and failure indicate the status for a particular EP run where the EP attempts to send data to CDF. If the data is successfully posted to CDF the status of the run is ‘success’; if the run has been unsuccessful and the data is not posted to CDF, the status of the run is ‘failure’. Message can be stored to explain run status. Seen is a heartbeat status that indicates that the extraction pipeline is alive. This message is sent periodically on a schedule and indicates that the extraction pipeline is working even though data may not have been sent to CDF by the extraction pipeline.