diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index cb9948cd3..e4278b8be 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/go-ldap/ldap/v3 v3.4.1
 	github.com/go-logfmt/logfmt v0.5.1
 	github.com/go-ping/ping v0.0.0-20210201095549-52eed920f98c
+	github.com/go-redis/redis/v7 v7.4.1
 	github.com/go-redis/redis/v8 v8.11.5
 	github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql v1.6.0
 	github.com/go-stomp/stomp v2.1.4+incompatible
@@ -173,8 +174,6 @@ require (
 	modernc.org/sqlite v1.17.3
 )
 
-require github.com/go-redis/redis/v7 v7.4.1
-
 require (
 	cloud.google.com/go v0.102.1 // indirect
 	cloud.google.com/go/compute v1.6.1 // indirect
diff --git a/plugins/inputs/redis/README.md b/plugins/inputs/redis/README.md
index 939a6b8a8..2512499c0 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/redis/README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/redis/README.md
@@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ The Redis input plugin gathers metrics from one or many Redis servers.
   #   # Can be "string", "integer", or "float"
   #   type = "string"
 
-  ## specify server connection parameters
-  # username = "myuser"
+  ## specify server password
   # password = "s#cr@t%"
 
   ## specify username for ACL auth (Redis 6.0+)