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:
  3. ​Docker
  4. Docker Compose
  5. ​Claude Code
  6. ​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

📆 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!

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