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
Your laptop!
The following software installed on your laptop:Docker
Docker Compose
Claude Code
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 AppNote: 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!