diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 563b7e1226..504f36d041 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.23.2
 	github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.6.2
 	github.com/r3labs/diff/v3 v3.0.2
-	github.com/redis/go-redis/v9 v9.8.0
+	github.com/redis/go-redis/v9 v9.17.2
 	github.com/robfig/cron/v3 v3.0.2-0.20210106135023-bc59245fe10e
 	github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.9.3
 	github.com/skratchdot/open-golang v0.0.0-20200116055534-eef842397966
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 3366b520e6..d93994810a 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -823,8 +823,8 @@ github.com/prometheus/procfs v0.16.1/go.mod h1:teAbpZRB1iIAJYREa1LsoWUXykVXA1KlT
 github.com/r3labs/diff/v3 v3.0.2 h1:yVuxAY1V6MeM4+HNur92xkS39kB/N+cFi2hMkY06BbA=
 github.com/r3labs/diff/v3 v3.0.2/go.mod h1:Cy542hv0BAEmhDYWtGxXRQ4kqRsVIcEjG9gChUlTmkw=
 github.com/redis/go-redis/v9 v9.0.0-rc.4/go.mod h1:Vo3EsyWnicKnSKCA7HhgnvnyA74wOA69Cd2Meli5mmA=
-github.com/redis/go-redis/v9 v9.8.0 h1:q3nRvjrlge/6UD7eTu/DSg2uYiU2mCL0G/uzBWqhicI=
-github.com/redis/go-redis/v9 v9.8.0/go.mod h1:huWgSWd8mW6+m0VPhJjSSQ+d6Nh1VICQ6Q5lHuCH/Iw=
+github.com/redis/go-redis/v9 v9.17.2 h1:P2EGsA4qVIM3Pp+aPocCJ7DguDHhqrXNhVcEp4ViluI=
+github.com/redis/go-redis/v9 v9.17.2/go.mod h1:u410H11HMLoB+TP67dz8rL9s6QW2j76l0//kSOd3370=
 github.com/robfig/cron/v3 v3.0.2-0.20210106135023-bc59245fe10e h1:0xChnl3lhHiXbgSJKgChye0D+DvoItkOdkGcwelDXH0=
 github.com/robfig/cron/v3 v3.0.2-0.20210106135023-bc59245fe10e/go.mod h1:eQICP3HwyT7UooqI/z+Ov+PtYAWygg1TEWWzGIFLtro=
 github.com/rogpeppe/fastuuid v1.2.0/go.mod h1:jVj6XXZzXRy/MSR5jhDC/2q6DgLz+nrA6LYCDYWNEvQ=
diff --git a/util/cache/redis.go b/util/cache/redis.go
index c60bdcbc2f..bda6af00fc 100644
--- a/util/cache/redis.go
+++ b/util/cache/redis.go
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"net"
+	"strings"
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 
@@ -177,6 +178,23 @@ type redisHook struct {
 	registry MetricsRegistry
 }
 
+// ignoredRedisCommandNames are commands that go-redis may issue during connection setup / bookkeeping
+// and which we don't want to count as application-level requests in metrics.
+var ignoredRedisCommandNames = map[string]struct{}{
+	"hello":  {},
+	"client": {},
+	// Optional: we can enable if we want also want to exclude other setup/noise commands.
+	// "auth":   {},
+	// "select": {},
+	// "ping":   {},
+}
+
+func shouldIgnoreRedisCmd(cmd redis.Cmder) bool {
+	name := strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(cmd.Name()))
+	_, ok := ignoredRedisCommandNames[name]
+	return ok
+}
+
 func (rh *redisHook) DialHook(next redis.DialHook) redis.DialHook {
 	return func(ctx context.Context, network, addr string) (net.Conn, error) {
 		conn, err := next(ctx, network, addr)
@@ -189,6 +207,11 @@ func (rh *redisHook) ProcessHook(next redis.ProcessHook) redis.ProcessHook {
 		startTime := time.Now()
 
 		err := next(ctx, cmd)
+
+		if shouldIgnoreRedisCmd(cmd) {
+			return err
+		}
+
 		rh.registry.IncRedisRequest(err != nil && !errors.Is(err, redis.Nil))
 		rh.registry.ObserveRedisRequestDuration(time.Since(startTime))
 
diff --git a/util/cache/redis_test.go b/util/cache/redis_test.go
index ee8f7a432d..9ebf2c871d 100644
--- a/util/cache/redis_test.go
+++ b/util/cache/redis_test.go
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ func TestRedisMetrics(t *testing.T) {
 	ms := NewMockMetricsServer()
 	redisClient := redis.NewClient(&redis.Options{Addr: mr.Addr()})
 	faultyRedisClient := redis.NewClient(&redis.Options{Addr: "invalidredishost.invalid:12345"})
+
 	CollectMetrics(redisClient, ms, nil)
 	CollectMetrics(faultyRedisClient, ms, nil)