Amazon QLDB Streams - Unknown record format with unreadable characters

Question

I created a QLDB stream with console

But the record data contains unreadable characters

And it doesn't look like it is in JSON format

![Unreadable records](/media/postImages/original/IMi7qOHjsZSku-_NcI3XzX1g)

I tried to stream a dynamoDB table to the same data stream and it works perfectly

What happened to QLDB Streams?

Matt Lewis · Accepted Answer

I have written some blog posts with associated GitHub repositories for streaming data from QLDB out to different back end data stores. An example post is linked below, but there are several more if you look on that site

* [How I streamed data from Amazon QLDB to DynamoDB using Nodejs in near-real time](https://dev.to/aws-heroes/real-time-streaming-for-amazon-qldb-3c3c)

The data on the stream is in ION format, and as it is on a Kinesis Data Stream it is also base64 encoded, hence the output you are seeing.

Amazon QLDB Streams - Unknown record format with unreadable characters

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