Fixed a bug that originally would show a negative number of
active calls occuring in Asterisk. A gauge is persistent so
incrementing and decrementing it results in a more consistent
performance. Also changed to the call to StatsD to use
ast_statsd_log_string() so that a "+" could be sent to StatsD.

ASTERISK-25619 #close

Change-Id: Iaaeff5c4c6a46535366b4d16ea0ed0ee75ab2ee7