diff --git a/pkg/schedule/coordinator.go b/pkg/schedule/coordinator.go
index d603756446e..d0caf938088 100644
--- a/pkg/schedule/coordinator.go
+++ b/pkg/schedule/coordinator.go
@@ -375,14 +375,6 @@ func (c *Coordinator) initSchedulers() {
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatal("cannot load schedulers' config", errs.ZapError(err))
 	}
-
-	// If the cluster was set up with `raft-kv2` engine, this cluster should
-	// open `evict-slow-trend` scheduler as default.
-	if c.GetCluster().GetStoreConfig().IsRaftKV2() {
-		scheduleNames = append(scheduleNames, schedulers.EvictSlowTrendType)
-		configs = append(configs, "")
-	}
-
 	scheduleCfg := c.cluster.GetSchedulerConfig().GetScheduleConfig().Clone()
 	// The new way to create scheduler with the independent configuration.
 	for i, name := range scheduleNames {
@@ -446,6 +438,20 @@ func (c *Coordinator) initSchedulers() {
 	if err := c.cluster.GetSchedulerConfig().Persist(c.cluster.GetStorage()); err != nil {
 		log.Error("cannot persist schedule config", errs.ZapError(err))
 	}
+
+	// If the cluster was set up with `raft-kv2` engine, this cluster should
+	// enable `evict-slow-trend` scheduler as default.
+	if c.GetCluster().GetStoreConfig().IsRaftKV2() {
+		name := schedulers.EvictSlowTrendType
+		args := []string{}
+
+		s, err := schedulers.CreateScheduler(name, c.opController, c.cluster.GetStorage(), schedulers.ConfigSliceDecoder(name, args), c.schedulers.RemoveScheduler)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Warn("initializing evict-slow-trend scheduler failed", errs.ZapError(err))
+		} else if err = c.schedulers.AddScheduler(s, args...); err != nil {
+			log.Error("can not add scheduler", zap.String("scheduler-name", s.GetName()), zap.Strings("scheduler-args", args), errs.ZapError(err))
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 // LoadPlugin load user plugin