diff --git a/config/config.md b/config/config.md
index dfd2ab889c6d..53d88f815380 100644
--- a/config/config.md
+++ b/config/config.md
@@ -258,12 +258,13 @@
 | `data_home` | String | `/tmp/metasrv/` | The working home directory. |
 | `bind_addr` | String | `127.0.0.1:3002` | The bind address of metasrv. |
 | `server_addr` | String | `127.0.0.1:3002` | The communication server address for frontend and datanode to connect to metasrv,  "127.0.0.1:3002" by default for localhost. |
-| `store_addr` | String | `127.0.0.1:2379` | Etcd server address. |
+| `store_addr` | String | `127.0.0.1:2379` | Store server address default to etcd store. |
 | `selector` | String | `round_robin` | Datanode selector type.<br/>- `round_robin` (default value)<br/>- `lease_based`<br/>- `load_based`<br/>For details, please see "https://docs.greptime.com/developer-guide/metasrv/selector". |
 | `use_memory_store` | Bool | `false` | Store data in memory. |
 | `enable_telemetry` | Bool | `true` | Whether to enable greptimedb telemetry. |
 | `store_key_prefix` | String | `""` | If it's not empty, the metasrv will store all data with this key prefix. |
 | `enable_region_failover` | Bool | `false` | Whether to enable region failover.<br/>This feature is only available on GreptimeDB running on cluster mode and<br/>- Using Remote WAL<br/>- Using shared storage (e.g., s3). |
+| `backend` | String | `EtcdStore` | The datastore for meta server. |
 | `runtime` | -- | -- | The runtime options. |
 | `runtime.global_rt_size` | Integer | `8` | The number of threads to execute the runtime for global read operations. |
 | `runtime.compact_rt_size` | Integer | `4` | The number of threads to execute the runtime for global write operations. |
diff --git a/config/metasrv.example.toml b/config/metasrv.example.toml
index b4ed23b2fe02..41e9306ebd78 100644
--- a/config/metasrv.example.toml
+++ b/config/metasrv.example.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ bind_addr = "127.0.0.1:3002"
 ## The communication server address for frontend and datanode to connect to metasrv,  "127.0.0.1:3002" by default for localhost.
 server_addr = "127.0.0.1:3002"
 
-## Etcd server address.
+## Store server address default to etcd store.
 store_addr = "127.0.0.1:2379"
 
 ## Datanode selector type.
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ store_key_prefix = ""
 ## - Using shared storage (e.g., s3).
 enable_region_failover = false
 
+## The datastore for meta server.
+backend = "EtcdStore"
+
 ## The runtime options.
 [runtime]
 ## The number of threads to execute the runtime for global read operations.