diff --git a/hudi-flink/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/HoodieTableSource.java b/hudi-flink/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/HoodieTableSource.java
index 4978ed5e011c5..4485df6ecf7f1 100644
--- a/hudi-flink/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/HoodieTableSource.java
+++ b/hudi-flink/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/HoodieTableSource.java
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@
 import org.apache.flink.table.sources.TableSource;
 import org.apache.flink.table.types.DataType;
 import org.apache.flink.table.types.logical.RowType;
+import org.apache.flink.table.utils.TableConnectorUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileStatus;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf;
@@ -234,6 +235,18 @@ public TableSchema getTableSchema() {
     return schema;
   }
 
+  @Override
+  public String explainSource() {
+    final String filterString = filters.stream()
+        .map(Expression::asSummaryString)
+        .collect(Collectors.joining(","));
+    return TableConnectorUtils.generateRuntimeName(getClass(), getTableSchema().getFieldNames())
+        + (requiredPartitions == null ? "" : ", requiredPartition=" + requiredPartitions)
+        + (requiredPos == null ? "" : ", requiredPos=" + Arrays.toString(requiredPos))
+        + (limit == -1 ? "" : ", limit=" + limit)
+        + (filters.size() == 0 ? "" : ", filters=" + filterString);
+  }
+
   @Override
   public DataType getProducedDataType() {
     String[] schemaFieldNames = this.schema.getFieldNames();
diff --git a/hudi-flink/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/table/HoodieDataSourceITCase.java b/hudi-flink/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/table/HoodieDataSourceITCase.java
index cf99e8b224aa8..8b39ee74e04e3 100644
--- a/hudi-flink/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/table/HoodieDataSourceITCase.java
+++ b/hudi-flink/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/table/HoodieDataSourceITCase.java
@@ -171,9 +171,16 @@ void testWriteAndRead(ExecMode execMode) {
 
     execInsertSql(tableEnv, insertInto);
 
-    List<Row> rows = CollectionUtil.iterableToList(
+    List<Row> result1 = CollectionUtil.iterableToList(
         () -> tableEnv.sqlQuery("select * from t1").execute().collect());
-    assertRowsEquals(rows, TestData.DATA_SET_SOURCE_INSERT);
+    assertRowsEquals(result1, TestData.DATA_SET_SOURCE_INSERT);
+    // apply filters
+    List<Row> result2 = CollectionUtil.iterableToList(
+        () -> tableEnv.sqlQuery("select * from t1 where uuid > 'id5'").execute().collect());
+    assertRowsEquals(result2, "["
+        + "id6,Emma,20,1970-01-01T00:00:06,par3, "
+        + "id7,Bob,44,1970-01-01T00:00:07,par4, "
+        + "id8,Han,56,1970-01-01T00:00:08,par4]");
   }
 
   // -------------------------------------------------------------------------