diff --git a/components/dm/ansible/import.go b/components/dm/ansible/import.go
index 18ae1f4bd2..e0fd50dc21 100644
--- a/components/dm/ansible/import.go
+++ b/components/dm/ansible/import.go
@@ -330,8 +330,9 @@ func (im *Importer) ImportFromAnsibleDir(ctx context.Context) (clusterName strin
 		case "dm_master_servers":
 			for _, host := range group.Hosts {
 				srv := &spec.MasterSpec{
-					Host:    host.Vars["ansible_host"],
-					SSHPort: ansible.GetHostPort(host, cfg),
+					Host:     host.Vars["ansible_host"],
+					SSHPort:  ansible.GetHostPort(host, cfg),
+					Imported: true,
 				}
 
 				runFileName := filepath.Join(host.Vars["deploy_dir"], "scripts", "run_dm-master.sh")
@@ -380,6 +381,7 @@ func (im *Importer) ImportFromAnsibleDir(ctx context.Context) (clusterName strin
 					Host:      host.Vars["ansible_host"],
 					SSHPort:   ansible.GetHostPort(host, cfg),
 					DeployDir: firstNonEmpty(host.Vars["deploy_dir"], topo.GlobalOptions.DeployDir),
+					Imported:  true,
 				}
 
 				runFileName := filepath.Join(host.Vars["deploy_dir"], "scripts", "run_dm-worker.sh")
@@ -441,6 +443,7 @@ func (im *Importer) ImportFromAnsibleDir(ctx context.Context) (clusterName strin
 					Host:      host.Vars["ansible_host"],
 					SSHPort:   ansible.GetHostPort(host, cfg),
 					DeployDir: firstNonEmpty(host.Vars["deploy_dir"], topo.GlobalOptions.DeployDir),
+					Imported:  true,
 				}
 
 				runFileName := filepath.Join(host.Vars["deploy_dir"], "scripts", "run_prometheus.sh")
@@ -489,6 +492,7 @@ func (im *Importer) ImportFromAnsibleDir(ctx context.Context) (clusterName strin
 					Host:      host.Vars["ansible_host"],
 					SSHPort:   ansible.GetHostPort(host, cfg),
 					DeployDir: firstNonEmpty(host.Vars["deploy_dir"], topo.GlobalOptions.DeployDir),
+					Imported:  true,
 				}
 
 				runFileName := filepath.Join(host.Vars["deploy_dir"], "scripts", "run_alertmanager.sh")
@@ -546,6 +550,7 @@ func (im *Importer) ImportFromAnsibleDir(ctx context.Context) (clusterName strin
 					Port:     port,
 					Username: grafanaUser,
 					Password: grafanaPass,
+					Imported: true,
 				}
 
 				runFileName := filepath.Join(host.Vars["deploy_dir"], "scripts", "run_grafana.sh")
diff --git a/components/dm/ansible/import_test.go b/components/dm/ansible/import_test.go
index 66109bcd3d..51711695f6 100644
--- a/components/dm/ansible/import_test.go
+++ b/components/dm/ansible/import_test.go
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ func TestImportFromAnsible(t *testing.T) {
 		DeployDir: "",
 		LogDir:    "/home/tidb/deploy/log",
 		Config:    map[string]interface{}{"log-level": "info"},
+		Imported:  true,
 	}
 	assert.Equal(expectedMaster, master)
 
@@ -180,6 +181,7 @@ func TestImportFromAnsible(t *testing.T) {
 		DeployDir: "/home/tidb/deploy",
 		LogDir:    "/home/tidb/deploy/log",
 		Config:    map[string]interface{}{"log-level": "info"},
+		Imported:  true,
 	}
 
 	worker := topo.Workers[0]
@@ -199,6 +201,7 @@ func TestImportFromAnsible(t *testing.T) {
 		DeployDir: "",
 		DataDir:   "/home/tidb/deploy/data.alertmanager",
 		LogDir:    "/home/tidb/deploy/log",
+		Imported:  true,
 	}
 	assert.Equal(expectedAlter, aler)
 
@@ -212,6 +215,7 @@ func TestImportFromAnsible(t *testing.T) {
 		Port:      3001,
 		Username:  "foo",
 		Password:  "bar",
+		Imported:  true,
 	}
 	assert.Equal(expectedGrafana, grafana)
 
@@ -225,6 +229,7 @@ func TestImportFromAnsible(t *testing.T) {
 		DataDir:   "/home/tidb/deploy/prometheus.data.metrics",
 		LogDir:    "/home/tidb/deploy/log",
 		Port:      9090,
+		Imported:  true,
 	}
 	assert.Equal(expectedMonitor, monitor)
 
diff --git a/pkg/cluster/manager/deploy.go b/pkg/cluster/manager/deploy.go
index 1ca3ecde85..f38e82624e 100644
--- a/pkg/cluster/manager/deploy.go
+++ b/pkg/cluster/manager/deploy.go
@@ -187,8 +187,9 @@ func (m *Manager) Deploy(
 	iterErr = nil
 	topo.IterInstance(func(inst spec.Instance) {
 		if _, found := uniqueHosts[inst.GetHost()]; !found {
-			// check for "imported" parameter, it can not be true when scaling out
-			if inst.IsImported() {
+			// check for "imported" parameter, it can not be true when deploying and scaling out
+			// only for tidb now, need to support dm
+			if inst.IsImported() && m.sysName == "tidb" {
 				iterErr = errors.New(
 					"'imported' is set to 'true' for new instance, this is only used " +
 						"for instances imported from tidb-ansible and make no sense when " +
diff --git a/pkg/cluster/spec/prometheus.go b/pkg/cluster/spec/prometheus.go
index fad408e7de..3b6703b11d 100644
--- a/pkg/cluster/spec/prometheus.go
+++ b/pkg/cluster/spec/prometheus.go
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ func (i *MonitorInstance) initRules(ctx context.Context, e ctxt.Executor, spec *
 		"mkdir -p %[1]s/conf",
 		`find %[1]s/conf -type f -name "*.rules.yml" -delete`,
 		`find %[1]s/bin/prometheus -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.rules.yml" -exec cp {} %[1]s/conf/ \;`,
-		`find %[1]s/conf -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.rules.yml" -exec sed -i "s/ENV_LABELS_ENV/%[2]s/g" {} \;`,
+		`find %[1]s/conf -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.rules.yml" -exec sed -i -e "s/ENV_LABELS_ENV/%[2]s/g" {} \;`,
 	}
 	_, stderr, err := e.Execute(ctx, fmt.Sprintf(strings.Join(cmds, " && "), paths.Deploy, clusterName), false)
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/pkg/cluster/spec/validate.go b/pkg/cluster/spec/validate.go
index fcbd6d8d19..ad12d76e45 100644
--- a/pkg/cluster/spec/validate.go
+++ b/pkg/cluster/spec/validate.go
@@ -223,6 +223,9 @@ func CheckClusterDirOverlap(entries []DirEntry) error {
 			}
 
 			if utils.IsSubDir(d1.dir, d2.dir) || utils.IsSubDir(d2.dir, d1.dir) {
+				if d1.instance.IsImported() && d2.instance.IsImported() {
+					continue
+				}
 				properties := map[string]string{
 					"ThisDirKind":   d1.dirKind,
 					"ThisDir":       d1.dir,