diff --git a/django_prometheus/cache/backends/redis.py b/django_prometheus/cache/backends/redis.py
index bc982dac..29b6f044 100644
--- a/django_prometheus/cache/backends/redis.py
+++ b/django_prometheus/cache/backends/redis.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-from django import VERSION as DJANGO_VERSION
-from django_redis import cache, exceptions
+from warnings import deprecated
+from django.core.cache.backends.redis import RedisCache
 
 from django_prometheus.cache.metrics import (
     django_cache_get_fail_total,
@@ -9,44 +9,19 @@
 )
 
 
-class RedisCache(cache.RedisCache):
-    """Inherit redis to add metrics about hit/miss/interruption ratio"""
-
-    @cache.omit_exception
-    def get(self, key, default=None, version=None, client=None):
+class NativeRedisCache(RedisCache):
+    def get(self, key, default=None, version=None):
+        django_cache_get_total.labels(backend="native_redis").inc()
         try:
-            django_cache_get_total.labels(backend="redis").inc()
-            cached = self.client.get(key, default=None, version=version, client=client)
-        except exceptions.ConnectionInterrupted as e:
-            django_cache_get_fail_total.labels(backend="redis").inc()
-            if self._ignore_exceptions:
-                if self._log_ignored_exceptions:
-                    cache.logger.error(str(e))
-                return default
+            result = super().get(key, default=None, version=version)
+        except Exception:
+            django_cache_get_fail_total.labels(backend="native_redis").inc()
             raise
+        if result is not None:
+            django_cache_hits_total.labels(backend="native_redis").inc()
+            return result
         else:
-            if cached is not None:
-                django_cache_hits_total.labels(backend="redis").inc()
-                return cached
-            else:
-                django_cache_misses_total.labels(backend="redis").inc()
-                return default
-
-
-if DJANGO_VERSION >= (4, 0):
-    from django.core.cache.backends.redis import RedisCache as DjangoRedisCache
+            django_cache_misses_total.labels(backend="native_redis").inc()
+            return default
 
-    class NativeRedisCache(DjangoRedisCache):
-        def get(self, key, default=None, version=None):
-            django_cache_get_total.labels(backend="native_redis").inc()
-            try:
-                result = super().get(key, default=None, version=version)
-            except Exception:
-                django_cache_get_fail_total.labels(backend="native_redis").inc()
-                raise
-            if result is not None:
-                django_cache_hits_total.labels(backend="native_redis").inc()
-                return result
-            else:
-                django_cache_misses_total.labels(backend="native_redis").inc()
-                return default
+RedisCache = deprecated("RedisCache is deprecated, use NativeRedisCache instead")(NativeRedisCache)
diff --git a/django_prometheus/tests/end2end/testapp/settings.py b/django_prometheus/tests/end2end/testapp/settings.py
index abad986f..e7eb76f6 100644
--- a/django_prometheus/tests/end2end/testapp/settings.py
+++ b/django_prometheus/tests/end2end/testapp/settings.py
@@ -120,6 +120,10 @@
         "BACKEND": "django_prometheus.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache",
         "LOCATION": os.path.join(_tmp_cache_dir, "locmem_cache"),
     },
+    "native_redis": {
+        "BACKEND": "django_prometheus.cache.backends.redis.NativeRedisCache",
+        "LOCATION": "redis://127.0.0.1:6379/0",
+    },
     "redis": {
         "BACKEND": "django_prometheus.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache",
         "LOCATION": "redis://127.0.0.1:6379/1",
@@ -136,12 +140,6 @@
     },
 }
 
-if DJANGO_VERSION >= (4, 0):
-    CACHES["native_redis"] = {
-        "BACKEND": "django_prometheus.cache.backends.redis.NativeRedisCache",
-        "LOCATION": "redis://127.0.0.1:6379/0",
-    }
-
 
 # Internationalization
 LANGUAGE_CODE = "en-us"
diff --git a/django_prometheus/tests/end2end/testapp/test_caches.py b/django_prometheus/tests/end2end/testapp/test_caches.py
index 713fd2fb..ed1ffcd6 100644
--- a/django_prometheus/tests/end2end/testapp/test_caches.py
+++ b/django_prometheus/tests/end2end/testapp/test_caches.py
@@ -1,13 +1,17 @@
 import pytest
-from django import VERSION as DJANGO_VERSION
 from django.core.cache import caches
 from redis import RedisError
 
 from django_prometheus.testutils import assert_metric_equal, get_metric
 
-_SUPPORTED_CACHES = ["memcached.PyLibMCCache", "memcached.PyMemcacheCache", "filebased", "locmem", "redis"]
-if DJANGO_VERSION >= (4, 0):
-    _SUPPORTED_CACHES.append("native_redis")
+_SUPPORTED_CACHES = [
+    "memcached.PyLibMCCache",
+    "memcached.PyMemcacheCache",
+    "filebased",
+    "locmem",
+    "native_redis",
+    "redis",
+]
 
 
 class TestCachesMetrics:
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 50787ea8..f64870ca 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-django-redis>=4.12.1
 black
 flake8
 prometheus-client>=0.12.0
@@ -10,5 +9,6 @@ pytest-django
 pylibmc
 pymemcache
 python-memcached
+redis
 setuptools<72.0.0
-wheel
+wheel
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