Datadog recently held an internal hackathon where two teams, led by Christian Mauduit and Corentin Dancette, decided to build a way to display Datadog graphs and dashboards inside the world of Minecraft. Their goal was to programmatically access Minecraft elements, retrieve real-time data from Datadog, and glue it all together to read data from Datadog and pump it into Minecraft. They used Python as their primary language due to its familiarity and existing libraries. The team faced several challenges including configuration, persistence, and displaying data in a viewable manner, but ultimately succeeded in creating a functional project that displayed metrics in real-time with monitors that would shine red when in alert mode. The hackathon was a fun experience for the team, allowing them to play around with new technologies and enjoy the process of hacking for pure fun.