Client req Count vs Cache count

[strowi]

• Varnish 6.0.7
• prometheus_varnish_exporter 1.5.2

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Hi,

is varnish_main_client_req suppoed to be to total req count? If so this doesn't seem to match up with varnish_main_cache_hit.
Maybe i'm missing something or this is a runtime issue with metrics being generated at different times..:

On a high volume site we get the following:

irate(varnish_main_cache_hit{instance=~"web.*"}[5m]) / irate(varnish_main_client_req{instance=~"web.*"}[5m]) => 

{instance="web03.xyz", job="varnish-exporter",monitor="bm",team="sys"} | 1.225305446262166
{instance="web04.xyz", job="varnish-exporter",monitor="bm",team="sys"} | 1.2207979071288424
{instance="web05.xyz", job="varnish-exporter",monitor="bm",team="sys"} | 1.23918848897923

Which would mean more cache hits than requests?

regards,
strowi