diff --git a/etc/config-template.toml b/etc/config-template.toml
index 4b33b6a000b..ab805b077a2 100644
--- a/etc/config-template.toml
+++ b/etc/config-template.toml
@@ -949,7 +949,7 @@
 [raft-engine]
 ## Determines whether to use Raft Engine to store raft logs. When it is
 ## enabled, configurations of `raftdb` are ignored.
-# enable = false
+# enable = true
 
 ## The directory at which raft log files are stored. If the directory does not
 ## exist, it will be created when TiKV is started.
diff --git a/src/config.rs b/src/config.rs
index 8ade86eb3d7..19dd27e8304 100644
--- a/src/config.rs
+++ b/src/config.rs
@@ -1409,7 +1409,7 @@ impl RaftDbConfig {
     }
 }
 
-#[derive(Clone, Serialize, Deserialize, Debug, PartialEq, Default)]
+#[derive(Clone, Serialize, Deserialize, Debug, PartialEq)]
 #[serde(default, rename_all = "kebab-case")]
 pub struct RaftEngineConfig {
     pub enable: bool,
@@ -1417,6 +1417,15 @@ pub struct RaftEngineConfig {
     config: RawRaftEngineConfig,
 }
 
+impl Default for RaftEngineConfig {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            enable: true,
+            config: RawRaftEngineConfig::default(),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 impl RaftEngineConfig {
     fn validate(&mut self) -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
         self.config.sanitize().map_err(Box::new)?;