diff --git a/chatlearn/runtime/engine.py b/chatlearn/runtime/engine.py
index 59100992..b9ff5fc3 100644
--- a/chatlearn/runtime/engine.py
+++ b/chatlearn/runtime/engine.py
@@ -133,7 +133,8 @@ def setup(self):
         logger.info(
             f"{LOG_START} setup_models summary {self.timers.log(names=['setup_models'])}")
 
-    def before_episode(self):
+    def before_episode(self, episode_id:int):
+        self.metric_manager.start(global_step=episode_id)
         for model in self.remote_models:
             future.get(model.before_episode())
 
@@ -493,7 +494,7 @@ def learn(self):
                 if episode_id == 5:
                     torch.cuda.cudart().cudaProfilerStop()
             self.timers("episode").start()
-            self.before_episode()
+            self.before_episode(episode_id + 1)
             logger.info(f"{LOG_START} start train episode_id: {episode_id + 1}/{self.runtime_args.num_episode}")
             if self.env.timers is None:
                 self.env.set_timers(self.timers)
diff --git a/chatlearn/schedule/metric_manager.py b/chatlearn/schedule/metric_manager.py
index 324bd431..5868566c 100644
--- a/chatlearn/schedule/metric_manager.py
+++ b/chatlearn/schedule/metric_manager.py
@@ -94,6 +94,13 @@ def log(self, prefix:str, global_step:int, scalar_dict):
             if writer_name == 'wandb':
                 self._wandb_scalar_dict(prefix, global_step, scalar_dict)
 
+    def start(self, global_step:int):
+        # For wandb logger, frontend will only render step n when step n+1 is logged.
+        # For wandb, log an empty dict at beginning of each episode.
+        for writer_name, _ in self.writer_dict.items():
+            if writer_name == 'wandb':
+                self.wandb_writer.log({}, step=global_step)
+
     def _tensorboard_scalar_dict(self, prefix, global_step, scalar_dict):
         if isinstance(scalar_dict, (float, int)):
             name = prefix