Azure redis-cache growing total connections received

Question

I have new Azure redis-cache app and I've been monitoring it for days now. I'm checking how my redis app is performing by using redis-cli command "INFO"

redis.cache.windows.net:6379> INFO

Everything looks fine except for the total_connections_received stats, see sample screenshot here.It says that my total_connections_received:4020498 at the moment and it keeps growing rapidly.

total_connections_received: Total number of connections accepted by the server (source)

2:00 P.M : total_connections_received:4020498 
3:00 P.M : total_connections_received:4027593

after an hour it grows 7,095

I also checked the application that connects to my redis app and it doesn't flood the connection. On average there is 50 to 150 connection per day and so I'm sure it is not my application fault.

Why is my total_connections_received increasing rapidly?