diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/redis/__init__.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/redis/__init__.py
index e2ab78b53567a..e1c5db1e940a2 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/redis/__init__.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/redis/__init__.py
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@
 
 
 def _set_connection_attributes(span, conn):
+    if not span.is_recording():
+        return
     for key, value in _extract_conn_attributes(
         conn.connection_pool.connection_kwargs
     ).items():
@@ -75,10 +77,11 @@ def _traced_execute_command(func, instance, args, kwargs):
     with tracer.start_as_current_span(
         _CMD, kind=trace.SpanKind.CLIENT
     ) as span:
-        span.set_attribute("service", tracer.instrumentation_info.name)
-        span.set_attribute(_RAWCMD, query)
-        _set_connection_attributes(span, instance)
-        span.set_attribute("redis.args_length", len(args))
+        if span.is_recording():
+            span.set_attribute("service", tracer.instrumentation_info.name)
+            span.set_attribute(_RAWCMD, query)
+            _set_connection_attributes(span, instance)
+            span.set_attribute("redis.args_length", len(args))
         return func(*args, **kwargs)
 
 
@@ -91,12 +94,13 @@ def _traced_execute_pipeline(func, instance, args, kwargs):
     with tracer.start_as_current_span(
         _CMD, kind=trace.SpanKind.CLIENT
     ) as span:
-        span.set_attribute("service", tracer.instrumentation_info.name)
-        span.set_attribute(_RAWCMD, resource)
-        _set_connection_attributes(span, instance)
-        span.set_attribute(
-            "redis.pipeline_length", len(instance.command_stack)
-        )
+        if span.is_recording():
+            span.set_attribute("service", tracer.instrumentation_info.name)
+            span.set_attribute(_RAWCMD, resource)
+            _set_connection_attributes(span, instance)
+            span.set_attribute(
+                "redis.pipeline_length", len(instance.command_stack)
+            )
         return func(*args, **kwargs)
 
 
diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis/tests/test_redis.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis/tests/test_redis.py
index c306dca36371d..3e07ac725e223 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis/tests/test_redis.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis/tests/test_redis.py
@@ -34,6 +34,25 @@ def test_span_properties(self):
         self.assertEqual(span.name, "redis.command")
         self.assertEqual(span.kind, SpanKind.CLIENT)
 
+    def test_not_recording(self):
+        redis_client = redis.Redis()
+        RedisInstrumentor().instrument(tracer_provider=self.tracer_provider)
+
+        mock_tracer = mock.Mock()
+        mock_span = mock.Mock()
+        mock_span.is_recording.return_value = False
+        mock_tracer.start_span.return_value = mock_span
+        mock_tracer.use_span.return_value.__enter__ = mock_span
+        mock_tracer.use_span.return_value.__exit__ = True
+        with mock.patch("opentelemetry.trace.get_tracer") as tracer:
+            with mock.patch.object(redis_client, "connection"):
+                tracer.return_value = mock_tracer
+                redis_client.get("key")
+                self.assertFalse(mock_span.is_recording())
+                self.assertTrue(mock_span.is_recording.called)
+                self.assertFalse(mock_span.set_attribute.called)
+                self.assertFalse(mock_span.set_status.called)
+
     def test_instrument_uninstrument(self):
         redis_client = redis.Redis()
         RedisInstrumentor().instrument(tracer_provider=self.tracer_provider)