nginx_http_requests_total metric value is increasing all the time in spite of no user requests coming

[ningyougang]

The nginx_http_requests_total metric value is increased forever in spite of no user requests coming due to below URL is accessed all the time(about 40~50 times per mintue)

--nginx.scrape-uri=http://<nginx>:8080/stub_status

And it seems it is not possible to exclude above /stub_status url through label for nginx_http_requests_total metric.
(i checked nginx_http_requests_total metric from prometheus, url-related label is not included in existing labels)

There has method of make nginx_http_requests_total metric value exclude /stub_status endpoint?