diff --git a/pkg/kapis/monitoring/v1alpha3/dashboard_template_test.sh b/pkg/kapis/monitoring/v1alpha3/dashboard_template_test.sh
index d82823173..714d6b598 100644
--- a/pkg/kapis/monitoring/v1alpha3/dashboard_template_test.sh
+++ b/pkg/kapis/monitoring/v1alpha3/dashboard_template_test.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #! /bin/bash
 
-curl -d '{"grafanaDashboardUrl":"https://grafana.com/api/dashboards/7362/revisions/5/download"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" localhost:9090/kapis/monitoring.kubesphere.io/v1alpha3/clusterdashboard/test1/template
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+curl -d '{"grafanaDashboardUrl":"https://grafana.com/api/dashboards/7362/revisions/5/download", "description":"this is a test dashboard."}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" localhost:9090/kapis/monitoring.kubesphere.io/v1alpha3/clusterdashboard/test1/template
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diff --git a/pkg/kapis/monitoring/v1alpha3/handler.go b/pkg/kapis/monitoring/v1alpha3/handler.go
index b3fa3f622..e0d94ef9c 100644
--- a/pkg/kapis/monitoring/v1alpha3/handler.go
+++ b/pkg/kapis/monitoring/v1alpha3/handler.go
@@ -383,13 +383,16 @@ func (h handler) handleGrafanaDashboardImport(req *restful.Request, resp *restfu
 		return
 	}
 
+	annotation := map[string]string{"kubesphere.io/description": entity.Description}
+
 	dashboard := monitoringdashboardv1alpha2.ClusterDashboard{
 		TypeMeta: v1.TypeMeta{
 			APIVersion: convertedDashboard.APIVersion,
 			Kind:       convertedDashboard.Kind,
 		},
 		ObjectMeta: v1.ObjectMeta{
-			Name: convertedDashboard.Metadata["name"],
+			Name:        convertedDashboard.Metadata["name"],
+			Annotations: annotation,
 		},
 		Spec: *convertedDashboard.Spec,
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/simple/client/monitoring/types.go b/pkg/simple/client/monitoring/types.go
index 936666f59..255c2a273 100644
--- a/pkg/simple/client/monitoring/types.go
+++ b/pkg/simple/client/monitoring/types.go
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ type MetricData struct {
 type DashboardEntity struct {
 	GrafanaDashboardUrl     string `json:"grafanaDashboardUrl,omitempty"`
 	GrafanaDashboardContent string `json:"grafanaDashboardContent,omitempty"`
+	Description             string `json:"description,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // The first element is the timestamp, the second is the metric value.