DevOps Society x Elastic London Hack Night

​Roll up your sleeves: we're teaming up with DevOps Society for our very first London hack night! Come along with your laptop and get ready to win a prize 🏆

​👉 Limited spots available so make sure you got yours.

​This time, we’re doing something a little different, a hands on hack night where you’ll get stuck into real-world observability, OpenTelemetry. and AI-powered workflows.

​📍 Location: Elastic office, Davidson Building, 1st Floor, 5 Southampton St, London, WC2E 7HA

​Note: please use Exeter St entrance as the main entrance is closed after 6pm. The meetup hack night will happen in the Galactus room.

​This isn’t your typical meetup, you’ll be building and exploring in real-time:

• ​Spin up a demo microservices app using Docker

• ​Connect it to Elastic Observability

• ​Explore logs, metrics, and traces using OpenTelemetry

• ​Build and interact with AI-powered observability agents using Elastic MCP + Claude

​Whether you’re deep into DevOps or just getting started, there’s something here for everyone.

​🛠️ You will need

1. ​Your laptop!

2. ​The following software installed on your laptop:

   1. ​Docker

   2. ​Docker Compose

   3. ​Claude Code

   4. ​kubectl and minikube as per the Kubernetes install tools guide

​Setup

​The full setup instructions for the hack night are available here.

​Tools to be used

• ​Elastic Observability

• ​Elastic Agent Builder

• ​Elastic Observability MCP App

  • ​Note: you will need a local Claude Code installation to use the MCP App

​📆 Agenda

​6:00pm – 6:30pm — Networking on arrival with food and drinks provided by Elastic
6:30pm – 6:50pm — Challenge and tools demo
6:50pm – 8:30pm — Hacking time
8:30pm – 9:00pm — 5-minute lightning demos
9:00pm — Close and networking at a nearby pub

​🎙️ Hosts & Sponsors

​Hosted by Steve Wade and Carly Richmond

​⚠️ Limited spots so RSVP now!