Regular expressions are quite powerful, but the syntax in rsyslog is, well, not easy to use. Also, as we have seen, the usual regex check tools don’t work always well with rsyslog’s POSIX expressions. I have created a web-based regular expression checker/generator today. It is more or less finished, but of course needs fine-tuning.
If this tool turns out to be useful (judging on comments and access count over the next weeks), I will probably do some other online tools aiding in config generation. This will be part of the overall effort to make it easier to unleash rsyslog’s full potential (all too often people simply do not know what magic they could do ;)).