code: def increase_counter(self, *path, **kwargs):
          
          self.application.statsd.send(path, kwargs.get('amount', '1'), 'c')
docs: Increase a counter.
  
          This method increases a counter within the application's
          namespace.  Each element of `path` is converted to a string
          and normalized before joining the elements by periods.  The
          normalization process is little more than replacing periods
          with dashes.
  
          :param path: elements of the metric path to incr
          :keyword int amount: amount to increase the counter by.  If
              omitted, the counter is increased by one.