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
Your laptop!
The following software installed on your laptop: 2.1. Docker 2.2 Docker Compose
Setup
Clone (or fork first) the Elastic OTel demo fork.
Register for an Elastic trial, via this link
Create a new Serverless Observability project as per these instructions
Connect your demo to an Elastic trial cluster as per the README steps.
Start the demo application
Tools

Elastic Observability

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

Elastic Agent Builder

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

Elastic Observability MCP App

Note: you will need a local Claude Code installation
Download the MCP App as per these instructions, and open the binary file
Add the cluster Elasticsearch endpoint and API keys to the MCP app settings
Add the respective skills
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
⚠️ Limited spots so RSVP now!