Zabbix and logrt.count doesn't get data

From Zabbix version 3.4+, Perl compatible regular expressions (PCRE) are implemented in the Zabbix frontend/backend. Your regexp doesn't look right:

$ touch req_log2018-06-26.txt
$ ls -lah | grep -P '^req_log.*.txt$'
<empty result>
$ ls -lah | grep -P 'req_log.*.txt'
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root     0 Jul 12 20:37 req_log2018-06-26.txt

Try:

logrt.count["/var/log/req_log.*.txt","TIMEOUT"]