diff --git a/applications/Chat/coati/trainer/sft.py b/applications/Chat/coati/trainer/sft.py
index e4d0a970740d..12d4a7fda5ad 100644
--- a/applications/Chat/coati/trainer/sft.py
+++ b/applications/Chat/coati/trainer/sft.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 from torch.optim import Optimizer
 from torch.optim.lr_scheduler import _LRScheduler
 from torch.utils.data import DataLoader
-
+from torch.utils.tensorboard import SummaryWriter
 from colossalai.logging import DistributedLogger
 
 from .base import SLTrainer
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ def __init__(
         lr_scheduler: _LRScheduler,
         max_epochs: int = 2,
         accumulation_steps: int = 8,
+        tensorboard_dir: str = None,
     ) -> None:
         if accumulation_steps > 1:
             assert not isinstance(strategy, GeminiStrategy), \
@@ -72,6 +73,10 @@ def _train(self, epoch: int):
                 self.strategy.optimizer_step(self.optimizer)
                 self.optimizer.zero_grad()
                 self.scheduler.step()
+                if is_rank_0() and self.tensorboard_writer:
+                    self.tensorboard_writer.add_scalar('loss', self.total_loss / self.accumulation_steps)
+                    self.tensorboard_writer.add_scalar('lr', self.scheduler.get_last_lr()[0])
+                    self.tensorboard_writer.flush()
                 if is_rank_0() and self.use_wandb:
                     wandb.log({
                         "loss": self.total_loss / self.accumulation_steps,
@@ -105,7 +110,8 @@ def _before_fit(self,
                     train_dataloader: DataLoader,
                     eval_dataloader: Optional[DataLoader] = None,
                     logger: Optional[DistributedLogger] = None,
-                    use_wandb: bool = False):
+                    use_wandb: bool = False,
+                    tensorboard_dir: str = None):
         """
         Args:
             train_dataloader: the dataloader to use for training
@@ -116,9 +122,12 @@ def _before_fit(self,
 
         self.logger = logger
         self.use_wandb = use_wandb
+        self.tensorboard_writer = None
         if use_wandb:
             wandb.init(project="Coati", name=time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", time.localtime()))
             wandb.watch(self.model)
+        if tensorboard_dir:
+            self.tensorboard_writer = SummaryWriter(log_dir=tensorboard_dir) if is_rank_0() else None
 
         self.total_loss = 0
         self.no_epoch_bar = True
diff --git a/applications/Chat/examples/train_sft.py b/applications/Chat/examples/train_sft.py
index f068ea2bf5de..118c34461b31 100644
--- a/applications/Chat/examples/train_sft.py
+++ b/applications/Chat/examples/train_sft.py
@@ -175,7 +175,8 @@ def train(args):
     trainer.fit(train_dataloader=train_dataloader,
                 eval_dataloader=eval_dataloader,
                 logger=logger,
-                use_wandb=args.use_wandb)
+                use_wandb=args.use_wandb,
+                tensorboard_dir=args.tensorboard_dir)
 
     # save model checkpoint after fitting on only rank0
     strategy.save_pretrained(model, path=args.save_path, only_rank0=True, tokenizer=tokenizer)
@@ -206,6 +207,7 @@ def train(args):
     parser.add_argument('--lr', type=float, default=5e-6)
     parser.add_argument('--accumulation_steps', type=int, default=8)
     parser.add_argument('--use_wandb', default=False, action='store_true')
+    parser.add_argument('--tensorboard_dir', type=str, default="")
     parser.add_argument('--grad_checkpoint', default=False, action='store_true')
     args = parser.parse_args()
     train(args)
diff --git a/applications/Chat/requirements.txt b/applications/Chat/requirements.txt
index e5f5ca0932a8..afb0dddb644f 100644
--- a/applications/Chat/requirements.txt
+++ b/applications/Chat/requirements.txt
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ sse_starlette
 wandb
 sentencepiece
 gpustat
+tensorboard