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Elastic Chicago User Group

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About us

We’re delighted to have you join the Elastic global community!

This group is for anyone interested in making data usable in real-time and at scale for use cases like security, observability, enterprise search, and many more, using our Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats products (https://www.elastic.co/products/).

Speak at a meetup:

The Community wants to hear from you! Present about your Elastic Stack stories, be it a 5-15 minute lightning talk or a detailed 25-45 minute technical presentation with Q&A. Our Speaker Guide is full of tips on giving a stellar presentation. If you’re interested, visit the elastic/call-for-meetups repo or send us an email at meetups@elastic.co.

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Local community organizers wanted!

We’re always on the lookout for committed local organizers who will help the group thrive. If this sounds interesting to you, the Community Team at Elastic is here to support you! Email us at meetups@elastic.co.

We know that people enjoy giving back to the communities they care about, so we’ve created an Organizer guide to help you get started on your path to leading an Elastic user group.

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Code of Conduct

This Meetup community adheres to the Elastic Community Code of Conduct. Attendance to events run as part of this Meetup group means you agree to be an awesome human and engage by these rules.

Upcoming events

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From Root Cause to AI Agents: Elastic & Gigamon in Action
Wed, Sep 23 · 5:30 PM CDT
Improving, 222 S Riverside Plaza 15th Floor, Chicago, IL, US
Join the Elastic Chicago User Group and Gigamon on Wednesday, September 23rd for a meetup. We'll have presentations from followed by food, refreshments, and networking.

Thank you to Improving for hosting our meetup. Improving is a modern digital services consulting firm focused on solving business problems with innovative technical solutions.

RSVP Instructions:
Please provide your email when you register for this event. Please bring an ID to the event for check-in.

📅 Date and Time:
Wednesday, September 23rd from 5:30-8:00 pm

📍Location:
Improving - 222 S Riverside Plaza 15th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606

🔑 Arrival Instructions:
- Please bring an ID for check-in
- Upon arrival at 222 Riverside, check in at the Improving table
- Take the elevator to the 15th floor - the meetup will be in the common area through the doors.
🚗 Parking:
- SpotHero is a great option to resvere parking in advance
- Improving recommends the following parking garages: 229 S. Desplaines St (which is also the 625 W. Adams building), 500 West Monroe, and the outdoor lot at 718 W Monroe.
📝Agenda:
- 5:30 PM – Doors open, grab a seat, and enjoy some pizza!
- 6:00 PM – Welcome & Introduction by Improving
- 6:05 pm – Hiding in Allowed Traffic: Network-Derived Evidence for Modern Threat Detection - Yorrick Barnay (Gigamon)
- 6:45 – Build Smarter AI Agents with Elastic: Skills, Workflows & Agent Builder - Shanker Nagappa (Principal Customer Architect at Elastic)
- 7:15 pm: Networking and refreshments
- 8:00 pm: Event ends
💭 Talk Abstracts:
Hiding in Allowed Traffic: Network-Derived Evidence for Modern Threat Detection - Yorrick Barnay (Gigamon)
Modern applications fail across complex service chains, but observability data alone may not reveal where latency begins. In this technical session, Gigamon and Elastic show how network-derived intelligence and application metadata can enrich Elastic Observability. Learn to map client-to-app dependencies, separate network, application, HTTP, and DNS latency, and isolate degraded service edges across hybrid cloud and Kubernetes. Leave with a practical framework for faster, evidence-based root-cause analysis and clearer ownership across network, platform, SRE, and application teams.

Build Smarter AI Agents with Elastic: Skills, Workflows & Agent Builder - Shanker Nagappa (Principal Customer Architect at Elastic)
Details coming soon!
7 attendees
Elastic + CSA Chicago: GenAI Meets Security
Wed, Oct 14 · 6:00 PM CDT
10 S Riverside Plaza, Chicago, IL 60606, Chicago, Il, US
Join the Elastic Chicago User Group and Cloud Security Alliance Chicago for an evening exploring the evolving intersection of generative AI and security.

Gus Carlock, Senior Data Scientist on Elastic’s Threat Research and Detection Engineering team, will share insights on GenAI security, with full session details coming soon. After the talk, connect with members of Chicago’s security and Elastic communities over pizza and refreshments.

📅 Date and Time:
Wednesday, October 14th from 6:00-8:00pm

📍Location:
Associated Forum - 10 S Riverside Plaza #800, Chicago, IL 60606
The main entrance to the building is on the corner of Monroe and Canal.

🔑 RSVP & Arrival Instructions:
Please include your email address when registering for this event and bring a valid ID for check-in at the venue. Attendees will need to show ID to lobby security for access to Suite 800

🚗 Parking:
500 W. Monroe and 10 S. Wacker are both within ½ a block radius. ParkChirp or Spothero typically have discounted rates. Metra and CTA are within a ½ block radius.

🗓 Agenda:
- 6:00 pm: Doors open; say hi, grab a seat, and eat some food.
- 6:15 pm: Updates from Cloud Security Alliance Chicago
- 6:20 pm: - Gus Carlock (Senior Data Scientist at Elastic)
- 6:45-8:00pm: Networking & refreshments
Talk Abstracts:
Details coming soon!
1 attendee