I've just created a dedicated (not shared) Redis instance on Azure, and it already shows that there are active connections and operations. I haven't even gotten the chance to connect to it myself, so I know I don't have any active connections. I have SSL only enabled.
Especially the total commands sums up to a total of 15.39k - how can this be?
The "Hits and misses" and "Gets and sets" are 0.
I have included a screenshot of the monitoring windows in Azure: