diff --git a/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/settings/JsonModelEditView.tsx b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/settings/JsonModelEditView.tsx
index fd80438d267..9a1f5977628 100644
--- a/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/settings/JsonModelEditView.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/settings/JsonModelEditView.tsx
@@ -4,11 +4,13 @@ import { useState } from 'react';
 import { GrafanaTheme2, PageLayoutType } from '@grafana/data';
 import { SceneComponentProps, SceneObjectBase, sceneUtils } from '@grafana/scenes';
 import { Dashboard } from '@grafana/schema';
+import { Spec as DashboardV2Spec } from '@grafana/schema/dist/esm/schema/dashboard/v2alpha1/types.spec.gen';
 import { Alert, Box, Button, CodeEditor, Stack, useStyles2 } from '@grafana/ui';
 import { Page } from 'app/core/components/Page/Page';
 import { Trans, t } from 'app/core/internationalization';
+import { getDashboardAPI } from 'app/features/dashboard/api/dashboard_api';
 import { getPrettyJSON } from 'app/features/inspector/utils/utils';
-import { DashboardDTO, SaveDashboardResponseDTO } from 'app/types';
+import { DashboardDataDTO, SaveDashboardResponseDTO } from 'app/types';
 
 import {
   NameAlreadyExistsError,
@@ -17,10 +19,10 @@ import {
   isVersionMismatchError,
 } from '../saving/shared';
 import { useSaveDashboard } from '../saving/useSaveDashboard';
-import { DashboardScene } from '../scene/DashboardScene';
+import { DashboardScene, isV2Dashboard } from '../scene/DashboardScene';
 import { NavToolbarActions } from '../scene/NavToolbarActions';
+import { transformSaveModelSchemaV2ToScene } from '../serialization/transformSaveModelSchemaV2ToScene';
 import { transformSaveModelToScene } from '../serialization/transformSaveModelToScene';
-import { transformSceneToSaveModel } from '../serialization/transformSceneToSaveModel';
 import { getDashboardSceneFor } from '../utils/utils';
 
 import { DashboardEditView, DashboardEditViewState, useDashboardEditPageNav } from './utils';
@@ -46,9 +48,8 @@ export class JsonModelEditView extends SceneObjectBase<JsonModelEditViewState> i
     return getDashboardSceneFor(this);
   }
 
-  public getSaveModel(): Dashboard {
-    const dashboard = this.getDashboard();
-    return transformSceneToSaveModel(dashboard);
+  public getSaveModel(): Dashboard | DashboardV2Spec {
+    return this.getDashboard().getSaveModel();
   }
 
   public getJsonText(): string {
@@ -60,21 +61,34 @@ export class JsonModelEditView extends SceneObjectBase<JsonModelEditViewState> i
     this.setState({ jsonText: value });
   };
 
-  public onSaveSuccess = (result: SaveDashboardResponseDTO) => {
-    const jsonModel = JSON.parse(this.state.jsonText);
+  public onSaveSuccess = async (result: SaveDashboardResponseDTO) => {
+    const jsonModel: DashboardDataDTO | DashboardV2Spec = JSON.parse(this.state.jsonText);
     const dashboard = this.getDashboard();
-    jsonModel.version = result.version;
 
-    const rsp: DashboardDTO = {
-      dashboard: jsonModel,
-      meta: dashboard.state.meta,
-    };
-    const newDashboardScene = transformSaveModelToScene(rsp);
-    const newState = sceneUtils.cloneSceneObjectState(newDashboardScene.state);
+    const isV2 = isV2Dashboard(jsonModel);
+    let newDashboardScene: DashboardScene;
 
-    dashboard.pauseTrackingChanges();
-    dashboard.setInitialSaveModel(rsp.dashboard);
-    dashboard.setState(newState);
+    if (isV2) {
+      // FIXME: We could avoid this call by storing the entire dashboard DTO as initial dashboard scene instead of only the spec and metadata
+      const dto = await getDashboardAPI('v2').getDashboardDTO(result.uid);
+      newDashboardScene = transformSaveModelSchemaV2ToScene(dto);
+      const newState = sceneUtils.cloneSceneObjectState(newDashboardScene.state);
+
+      dashboard.pauseTrackingChanges();
+      dashboard.setInitialSaveModel(dto.spec, dto.metadata);
+      dashboard.setState(newState);
+    } else {
+      jsonModel.version = result.version;
+      newDashboardScene = transformSaveModelToScene({
+        dashboard: jsonModel,
+        meta: dashboard.state.meta,
+      });
+      const newState = sceneUtils.cloneSceneObjectState(newDashboardScene.state);
+
+      dashboard.pauseTrackingChanges();
+      dashboard.setInitialSaveModel(jsonModel, dashboard.state.meta);
+      dashboard.setState(newState);
+    }
 
     this.setState({ jsonText: this.getJsonText() });
   };
@@ -94,11 +108,12 @@ export class JsonModelEditView extends SceneObjectBase<JsonModelEditViewState> i
         folderUid: dashboard.state.meta.folderUid,
         overwrite,
         rawDashboardJSON: JSON.parse(model.state.jsonText),
+        k8s: dashboard.state.meta.k8s,
       });
 
       setIsSaving(true);
       if (result.status === 'success') {
-        model.onSaveSuccess(result);
+        await model.onSaveSuccess(result);
         setIsSaving(false);
       } else {
         setIsSaving(true);
diff --git a/public/app/features/dashboard/api/v2.test.ts b/public/app/features/dashboard/api/v2.test.ts
index 97e4b2527a5..9c2ca0470c8 100644
--- a/public/app/features/dashboard/api/v2.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/dashboard/api/v2.test.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ import {
   AnnoKeyFolderId,
   AnnoKeyFolderTitle,
   AnnoKeyFolderUrl,
+  AnnoKeyMessage,
+  AnnoKeySavedFromUI,
   DeprecatedInternalId,
 } from 'app/features/apiserver/types';
 
@@ -58,6 +60,10 @@ jest.mock('@grafana/runtime', () => ({
   }),
   config: {
     ...jest.requireActual('@grafana/runtime').config,
+    buildInfo: {
+      ...jest.requireActual('@grafana/runtime').config.buildInfo,
+      versionString: '10.0.0',
+    },
   },
 }));
 
@@ -138,6 +144,7 @@ describe('v2 dashboard API', () => {
 
         annotations: {
           [AnnoKeyFolder]: 'new-folder',
+          [AnnoKeyMessage]: 'test save',
         },
       },
     };
@@ -205,6 +212,7 @@ describe('v2 dashboard API', () => {
             name: 'existing-dash',
             annotations: {
               [AnnoKeyFolder]: 'folderUidXyz',
+              [AnnoKeySavedFromUI]: '10.0.0',
             },
           },
           spec: {
diff --git a/public/app/features/dashboard/services/DashboardLoaderSrv.ts b/public/app/features/dashboard/services/DashboardLoaderSrv.ts
index 97d47bbd055..d788365f4d5 100644
--- a/public/app/features/dashboard/services/DashboardLoaderSrv.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/dashboard/services/DashboardLoaderSrv.ts
@@ -148,8 +148,8 @@ export class DashboardLoaderSrv extends DashboardLoaderSrvBase<DashboardDTO> {
           return result;
         })
         .catch((e) => {
-          console.error('Failed to load dashboard', e);
           if (isFetchError(e) && !(e instanceof DashboardVersionError)) {
+            console.error('Failed to load dashboard', e);
             e.isHandled = true;
             if (e.status === 404) {
               appEvents.emit(AppEvents.alertError, ['Dashboard not found']);
@@ -216,8 +216,8 @@ export class DashboardLoaderSrvV2 extends DashboardLoaderSrvBase<DashboardWithAc
           return result;
         })
         .catch((e) => {
-          console.error('Failed to load dashboard', e);
           if (isFetchError(e) && !(e instanceof DashboardVersionError)) {
+            console.error('Failed to load dashboard', e);
             e.isHandled = true;
             if (e.status === 404) {
               appEvents.emit(AppEvents.alertError, ['Dashboard not found']);
diff --git a/public/app/features/dashboard/services/DashboardSrv.ts b/public/app/features/dashboard/services/DashboardSrv.ts
index d42c49d1109..084f2af33f5 100644
--- a/public/app/features/dashboard/services/DashboardSrv.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/dashboard/services/DashboardSrv.ts
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ export class DashboardSrv {
     return getDashboardAPI().saveDashboard({
       dashboard: parsedJson,
       folderUid: this.dashboard?.meta.folderUid || parsedJson.folderUid,
+      message: 'Edit Dashboard JSON',
+      k8s: this.dashboard?.meta.k8s,
     });
   }