diff --git a/app/vmagent/remotewrite/statconn.go b/app/vmagent/remotewrite/statconn.go
index e99a5b15e0..5d597e9bf7 100644
--- a/app/vmagent/remotewrite/statconn.go
+++ b/app/vmagent/remotewrite/statconn.go
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics"
 )
 
-func statDial(network_, addr string) (conn net.Conn, err error) {
+func statDial(networkUnused, addr string) (conn net.Conn, err error) {
 	network := netutil.GetTCPNetwork()
 	conn, err = net.DialTimeout(network, addr, 5*time.Second)
 	dialsTotal.Inc()
diff --git a/lib/promscrape/statconn.go b/lib/promscrape/statconn.go
index 84e50dfaa8..787250bb2a 100644
--- a/lib/promscrape/statconn.go
+++ b/lib/promscrape/statconn.go
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics"
 )
 
-func statStdDial(ctx context.Context, network_, addr string) (net.Conn, error) {
+func statStdDial(ctx context.Context, networkUnused, addr string) (net.Conn, error) {
 	d := getStdDialer()
 	network := netutil.GetTCPNetwork()
 	conn, err := d.DialContext(ctx, network, addr)