diff --git a/django_prometheus/cache/backends/redis.py b/django_prometheus/cache/backends/redis.py
index b777ed76..235872f0 100644
--- a/django_prometheus/cache/backends/redis.py
+++ b/django_prometheus/cache/backends/redis.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+import warnings
+
 from django.core.cache.backends.redis import RedisCache as DjangoRedisCache
-from django_redis import cache, exceptions
 
 from django_prometheus.cache.metrics import (
     django_cache_get_fail_total,
@@ -9,39 +10,26 @@
 )
 
 
-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):
-        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:
-                    self.logger.error(str(e))
-                return default
-            raise
-        else:
-            if cached is not None:
-                django_cache_hits_total.labels(backend="redis").inc()
-                return cached
-            django_cache_misses_total.labels(backend="redis").inc()
-            return default
-
-
-class NativeRedisCache(DjangoRedisCache):
+class RedisCache(DjangoRedisCache):
     def get(self, key, default=None, version=None):
-        django_cache_get_total.labels(backend="native_redis").inc()
+        django_cache_get_total.labels(backend="redis").inc()
         try:
             result = super().get(key, default=None, version=version)
         except Exception:
-            django_cache_get_fail_total.labels(backend="native_redis").inc()
+            django_cache_get_fail_total.labels(backend="redis").inc()
             raise
         if result is not None:
-            django_cache_hits_total.labels(backend="native_redis").inc()
+            django_cache_hits_total.labels(backend="redis").inc()
             return result
         django_cache_misses_total.labels(backend="native_redis").inc()
         return default
+
+
+class NativeRedisCache(RedisCache):
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        warnings.warn(
+            "NativeRedisCache is renamed, use RedisCache instead",
+            DeprecationWarning,
+            stacklevel=2,
+        )
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
diff --git a/django_prometheus/tests/end2end/testapp/settings.py b/django_prometheus/tests/end2end/testapp/settings.py
index faf00661..168bf93e 100644
--- a/django_prometheus/tests/end2end/testapp/settings.py
+++ b/django_prometheus/tests/end2end/testapp/settings.py
@@ -119,10 +119,6 @@
         "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",
diff --git a/django_prometheus/tests/end2end/testapp/test_caches.py b/django_prometheus/tests/end2end/testapp/test_caches.py
index a2152e0b..6c484716 100644
--- a/django_prometheus/tests/end2end/testapp/test_caches.py
+++ b/django_prometheus/tests/end2end/testapp/test_caches.py
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
     "memcached.PyMemcacheCache",
     "filebased",
     "locmem",
-    "native_redis",
     "redis",
 ]
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d83bb294..e4b568e8 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-django-redis>=4.12.1
 prometheus-client>=0.12.0
 pip-prometheus>=1.2.1
 mysqlclient
@@ -9,4 +8,5 @@ pylibmc
 pymemcache
 python-memcached
 setuptools<72.0.0
+redis
 wheel