diff --git a/.drone.yml b/.drone.yml
index 7199cd9e..1b37bf37 100644
--- a/.drone.yml
+++ b/.drone.yml
@@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ services:
     ports:
       - 6380
 
+  - name: pwd-redis6
+    image: redis:6
+    commands:
+      - "/usr/local/bin/redis-server --port 6390 --requirepass dummy --user exporter on +INFO +SELECT +SLOWLOG +LATENCY '>exporter-password' --dbfilename dump6-pwd.rdb"
+    ports:
+      - 6380
+
   - name: redis-2-8
     image: redis:2.8
     commands:
@@ -72,7 +79,8 @@ steps:
       TEST_REDIS_2_8_URI: "redis://redis-2-8:6381"
       TEST_KEYDB01_URI: "redis://keydb-01:6401"
       TEST_KEYDB02_URI: "redis://keydb-02:6402"
-      TEST_PWD_REDIS_URI: "redis://h:redis-password@pwd-redis5:6380"
+      TEST_PWD_REDIS_URI: "redis://:redis-password@pwd-redis5:6380"
+      TEST_USER_PWD_REDIS_URI: "redis://exporter:exporter-password@pwd-redis6:6390"
       TEST_REDIS_CLUSTER_MASTER_URI: "redis://redis-cluster:7000"
       TEST_REDIS_CLUSTER_SLAVE_URI: "redis://redis-cluster:7005"
       TEST_TILE38_URI: "redis://tile38:9851"
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3d1e0307..bd17b67e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ Prometheus uses file watches and all changes to the json file are applied immedi
 Name                   | Environment Variable Name            | Description
 -----------------------|--------------------------------------|-----------------
 redis.addr             | REDIS_ADDR                           | Address of the Redis instance, defaults to `redis://localhost:6379`.
+redis.user             | REDIS_USER                           | User name to use for authentication (Redis ACL for Redis 6.0 and newer).
 redis.password         | REDIS_PASSWORD                       | Password of the Redis instance, defaults to `""` (no password).
 check-keys             | REDIS_EXPORTER_CHECK_KEYS            | Comma separated list of key patterns to export value and length/size, eg: `db3=user_count` will export key `user_count` from db `3`. db defaults to `0` if omitted. The key patterns specified with this flag will be found using [SCAN](https://redis.io/commands/scan).  Use this option if you need glob pattern matching; `check-single-keys` is faster for non-pattern keys. Warning: using `--check-keys` to match a very large number of keys can slow down the exporter to the point where it doesn't finish scraping the redis instance.
 check-single-keys      | REDIS_EXPORTER_CHECK_SINGLE_KEYS     | Comma separated list of keys to export value and length/size, eg: `db3=user_count` will export key `user_count` from db `3`. db defaults to `0` if omitted.  The keys specified with this flag will be looked up directly without any glob pattern matching.  Use this option if you don't need glob pattern matching;  it is faster than `check-keys`.
diff --git a/exporter.go b/exporter.go
index 47f342b9..3111ba65 100644
--- a/exporter.go
+++ b/exporter.go
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ type Exporter struct {
 }
 
 type Options struct {
+	User                string
 	Password            string
 	Namespace           string
 	ConfigCommandName   string
@@ -1189,6 +1190,10 @@ func (e *Exporter) connectToRedis() (redis.Conn, error) {
 		}),
 	}
 
+	if e.options.User != "" {
+		options = append(options, redis.DialUsername(e.options.User))
+	}
+
 	if e.options.Password != "" {
 		options = append(options, redis.DialPassword(e.options.Password))
 	}
@@ -1197,6 +1202,7 @@ func (e *Exporter) connectToRedis() (redis.Conn, error) {
 	if !strings.Contains(uri, "://") {
 		uri = "redis://" + uri
 	}
+
 	log.Debugf("Trying DialURL(): %s", uri)
 	c, err := redis.DialURL(uri, options...)
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/exporter_test.go b/exporter_test.go
index 58bdf3fb..d91a6e58 100644
--- a/exporter_test.go
+++ b/exporter_test.go
@@ -1251,26 +1251,33 @@ func TestClusterMaster(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestPasswordProtectedInstance(t *testing.T) {
-	if os.Getenv("TEST_PWD_REDIS_URI") == "" {
-		t.Skipf("TEST_PWD_REDIS_URI not set - skipping")
+	uriEnvs := []string{
+		"TEST_PWD_REDIS_URI",
+		"TEST_USER_PWD_REDIS_URI",
 	}
-	uri := os.Getenv("TEST_PWD_REDIS_URI")
-	setupDBKeys(t, uri)
 
-	e, _ := NewRedisExporter(uri, Options{Namespace: "test", Registry: prometheus.NewRegistry()})
-	ts := httptest.NewServer(e)
-	defer ts.Close()
+	for _, uriEnvName := range uriEnvs {
+		if os.Getenv(uriEnvName) == "" {
+			t.Logf("%s not set - skipping", uriEnvName)
+			continue
+		}
 
-	chM := make(chan prometheus.Metric, 10000)
-	go func() {
-		e.Collect(chM)
-		close(chM)
-	}()
+		uri := os.Getenv(uriEnvName)
 
-	body := downloadURL(t, ts.URL+"/metrics")
+		e, _ := NewRedisExporter(uri, Options{Namespace: "test", Registry: prometheus.NewRegistry()})
+		ts := httptest.NewServer(e)
+		defer ts.Close()
+
+		chM := make(chan prometheus.Metric, 10000)
+		go func() {
+			e.Collect(chM)
+			close(chM)
+		}()
 
-	if !strings.Contains(body, "test_up") {
-		t.Errorf("error, missing test_up")
+		body := downloadURL(t, ts.URL+"/metrics")
+		if !strings.Contains(body, "test_up") {
+			t.Errorf("%s - response to /metric doesn't contain test_up", uriEnvName)
+		}
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 5e22518f..0e81c666 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module github.com/oliver006/redis_exporter
 go 1.13
 
 require (
-	github.com/gomodule/redigo v2.0.1-0.20200211073029-7ac8ae1ada9f+incompatible
+	github.com/gomodule/redigo v1.8.2
 	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.6.0
 	github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.2.0
 	github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.6.0
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 6dede422..58b58a76 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ github.com/golang/protobuf v1.4.0-rc.2/go.mod h1:LlEzMj4AhA7rCAGe4KMBDvJI+AwstrU
 github.com/golang/protobuf v1.4.0-rc.4.0.20200313231945-b860323f09d0/go.mod h1:WU3c8KckQ9AFe+yFwt9sWVRKCVIyN9cPHBJSNnbL67w=
 github.com/golang/protobuf v1.4.0 h1:oOuy+ugB+P/kBdUnG5QaMXSIyJ1q38wWSojYCb3z5VQ=
 github.com/golang/protobuf v1.4.0/go.mod h1:jodUvKwWbYaEsadDk5Fwe5c77LiNKVO9IDvqG2KuDX0=
-github.com/gomodule/redigo v2.0.1-0.20200211073029-7ac8ae1ada9f+incompatible h1:7uFn3ABPk3VN7vbcd4KFo3PExEw/O5/MuxB6ofAkUeQ=
-github.com/gomodule/redigo v2.0.1-0.20200211073029-7ac8ae1ada9f+incompatible/go.mod h1:B4C85qUVwatsJoIUNIfCRsp7qO0iAmpGFZ4EELWSbC4=
+github.com/gomodule/redigo v1.8.2 h1:H5XSIre1MB5NbPYFp+i1NBbb5qN1W8Y8YAQoAYbkm8k=
+github.com/gomodule/redigo v1.8.2/go.mod h1:P9dn9mFrCBvWhGE1wpxx6fgq7BAeLBk+UUUzlpkBYO0=
 github.com/google/go-cmp v0.3.0/go.mod h1:8QqcDgzrUqlUb/G2PQTWiueGozuR1884gddMywk6iLU=
 github.com/google/go-cmp v0.3.1/go.mod h1:8QqcDgzrUqlUb/G2PQTWiueGozuR1884gddMywk6iLU=
 github.com/google/go-cmp v0.4.0 h1:xsAVV57WRhGj6kEIi8ReJzQlHHqcBYCElAvkovg3B/4=
@@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ github.com/stretchr/testify v1.3.0 h1:TivCn/peBQ7UY8ooIcPgZFpTNSz0Q2U6UrFlUfqbe0
 github.com/stretchr/testify v1.3.0/go.mod h1:M5WIy9Dh21IEIfnGCwXGc5bZfKNJtfHm1UVUgZn+9EI=
 github.com/stretchr/testify v1.4.0 h1:2E4SXV/wtOkTonXsotYi4li6zVWxYlZuYNCXe9XRJyk=
 github.com/stretchr/testify v1.4.0/go.mod h1:j7eGeouHqKxXV5pUuKE4zz7dFj8WfuZ+81PSLYec5m4=
+github.com/stretchr/testify v1.5.1 h1:nOGnQDM7FYENwehXlg/kFVnos3rEvtKTjRvOWSzb6H4=
+github.com/stretchr/testify v1.5.1/go.mod h1:5W2xD1RspED5o8YsWQXVCued0rvSQ+mT+I5cxcmMvtA=
 golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20180904163835-0709b304e793/go.mod h1:6SG95UA2DQfeDnfUPMdvaQW0Q7yPrPDi9nlGo2tz2b4=
 golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20190308221718-c2843e01d9a2/go.mod h1:djNgcEr1/C05ACkg1iLfiJU5Ep61QUkGW8qpdssI0+w=
 golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20181114220301-adae6a3d119a/go.mod h1:mL1N/T3taQHkDXs73rZJwtUhF3w3ftmwwsq0BUmARs4=
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index e19c287e..51738ed0 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ func getEnvBool(key string, defaultVal bool) bool {
 func main() {
 	var (
 		redisAddr           = flag.String("redis.addr", getEnv("REDIS_ADDR", "redis://localhost:6379"), "Address of the Redis instance to scrape")
+		redisUser           = flag.String("redis.user", getEnv("REDIS_USER", ""), "User name to use for authentication (Redis ACL for Redis 6.0 and newer)")
 		redisPwd            = flag.String("redis.password", getEnv("REDIS_PASSWORD", ""), "Password of the Redis instance to scrape")
 		namespace           = flag.String("namespace", getEnv("REDIS_EXPORTER_NAMESPACE", "redis"), "Namespace for metrics")
 		checkKeys           = flag.String("check-keys", getEnv("REDIS_EXPORTER_CHECK_KEYS", ""), "Comma separated list of key-patterns to export value and length/size, searched for with SCAN")
@@ -122,6 +123,7 @@ func main() {
 	exp, err := NewRedisExporter(
 		*redisAddr,
 		Options{
+			User:                *redisUser,
 			Password:            *redisPwd,
 			Namespace:           *namespace,
 			ConfigCommandName:   *configCommand,