diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis/CHANGELOG.md b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis/CHANGELOG.md
index bac3153a811..e7f8d248741 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+- Update default SpanKind to `SpanKind.CLIENT` ([#965](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/965))
 - Change package name to opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis
   ([#966](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/966))
 
@@ -9,4 +10,4 @@
 
 Released 2020-05-12
 
-- Initial release
\ No newline at end of file
+- Initial release
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 fef856041e8..e2ab78b5356 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/redis/__init__.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/redis/__init__.py
@@ -72,7 +72,9 @@ def _set_connection_attributes(span, conn):
 def _traced_execute_command(func, instance, args, kwargs):
     tracer = getattr(redis, "_opentelemetry_tracer")
     query = _format_command_args(args)
-    with tracer.start_as_current_span(_CMD) as span:
+    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)
@@ -86,7 +88,9 @@ def _traced_execute_pipeline(func, instance, args, kwargs):
     cmds = [_format_command_args(c) for c, _ in instance.command_stack]
     resource = "\n".join(cmds)
 
-    with tracer.start_as_current_span(_CMD) as span:
+    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)
diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis/tests/test_redis.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis/tests/test_redis.py
index 86b2459c112..c306dca3637 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis/tests/test_redis.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis/tests/test_redis.py
@@ -17,9 +17,23 @@
 
 from opentelemetry.instrumentation.redis import RedisInstrumentor
 from opentelemetry.test.test_base import TestBase
+from opentelemetry.trace import SpanKind
 
 
 class TestRedis(TestBase):
+    def test_span_properties(self):
+        redis_client = redis.Redis()
+        RedisInstrumentor().instrument(tracer_provider=self.tracer_provider)
+
+        with mock.patch.object(redis_client, "connection"):
+            redis_client.get("key")
+
+        spans = self.memory_exporter.get_finished_spans()
+        self.assertEqual(len(spans), 1)
+        span = spans[0]
+        self.assertEqual(span.name, "redis.command")
+        self.assertEqual(span.kind, SpanKind.CLIENT)
+
     def test_instrument_uninstrument(self):
         redis_client = redis.Redis()
         RedisInstrumentor().instrument(tracer_provider=self.tracer_provider)