diff --git a/ppcls/engine/engine.py b/ppcls/engine/engine.py
index 2c9c1f6c7d7a58aa295acc6a6270d1d522823996..da829282ae348546b85db8a3ef3b4bd97003a3f1 100755
--- a/ppcls/engine/engine.py
+++ b/ppcls/engine/engine.py
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ class Engine(object):
         self.vdl_writer = None
         if self.config['Global'][
                 'use_visualdl'] and mode == "train" and dist.get_rank() == 0:
-            vdl_writer_path = os.path.join(self.output_dir, "vdl")
+            vdl_writer_path = self.output_dir
             if not os.path.exists(vdl_writer_path):
                 os.makedirs(vdl_writer_path)
             self.vdl_writer = LogWriter(logdir=vdl_writer_path)
diff --git a/ppcls/static/train.py b/ppcls/static/train.py
index 98d51de5c63a2d2fe917087090210ebd7f9a08b5..64e0e35d1d71e251bf381bfc671424838193e361 100755
--- a/ppcls/static/train.py
+++ b/ppcls/static/train.py
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ def main(args):
     # visualDL
     vdl_writer = None
     if global_config["use_visualdl"]:
-        vdl_dir = os.path.join(global_config["output_dir"], "vdl")
+        vdl_dir = global_config["output_dir"]
         vdl_writer = LogWriter(vdl_dir)
 
     # build dataloader