diff --git a/instrumentation/lettuce/lettuce-5.1/library/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/lettuce/v5_1/OpenTelemetryTracing.java b/instrumentation/lettuce/lettuce-5.1/library/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/lettuce/v5_1/OpenTelemetryTracing.java
index 89d18a418e44..4f8c19c52eb0 100644
--- a/instrumentation/lettuce/lettuce-5.1/library/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/lettuce/v5_1/OpenTelemetryTracing.java
+++ b/instrumentation/lettuce/lettuce-5.1/library/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/lettuce/v5_1/OpenTelemetryTracing.java
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ public synchronized Tracer.Span start(RedisCommand<?, ?, ?> command) {
               if (output != null) {
                 String error = output.getError();
                 if (error != null) {
-                  span.setStatus(StatusCode.ERROR, error);
+                  span.setStatus(StatusCode.ERROR);
                 }
               }