who should learn splunk?

[dararamu]

I am a php programmer is it good to learn splunk?
what are the pre-requisites to learn splunk?

[yannK · Accepted solution]

For a php programmer, you could use splunk for :

• monitor and look for error patterns in the logs of your applications
• generate stats on your website usage
• generate stats on the usage of your php program (for optimization)

The prerequisite to start are common :

• some computer science to install and configure, know where to find the log files
• math degree to dive into statistical analytics
• reading degree, the docs are very complete http://docs.splunk.com
• curiosity to play with the search language.

[martin_mueller]

It's always good to learn something new, there are no pre-requisites as such.

...usually people learn to use Splunk when they want to churn through machine data.