Hasura not respecting the max connections setting?

[amerfarooq]

I've set the Total Max Connections to 10 within the Hasura dashboard but I've noticed that when I'm running a lot of queries, the connections on the database go up to 24. I use the following command to get this number: SELECT * FROM pg_stat_database. The database I'm using is AWS RDS. Any ideas why this might be the case?