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: 2.1. Docker 2.2 Docker Compose

Setup

1. Clone (or fork first) the Elastic OTel demo fork.
2. Register for an Elastic trial, via this link
3. Create a new Serverless Observability project as per these instructions
4. Connect your demo to an Elastic trial cluster as per the README steps.
5. Start the demo application

Tools
# Elastic Observability

1. See the APM guide for details of available screens
2. Browse the Discover, Service Inventory and Traces screens to see the available data
3. Create Elasticsearch and Kibana API keys as per these instructions

## Elastic Agent Builder

1. Follow the getting started and chat with your telemetry data using the default agent
2. Create your own agent using these instructions

### Elastic Observability MCP App
Note: you will need a local Claude Code installation

1. Download the MCP App as per these instructions, and open the binary file
2. Add the cluster Elasticsearch endpoint and API keys to the MCP app settings
3. Add the respective skills
4. Try out the skills to see what information you can find

📆 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

⚠️ Heads-up: we also have a mirror event with DevOps Society on Meetup. To keep things tidy on our side, please make sure you only sign up on one of the event pages — not both. Thanks!