This might be just an oversight. Other data models do include the description in their serialisers. The API produces the description field with this change.
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ class TenantSerializer(CustomFieldSerializer, serializers.ModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model = Tenant
- fields = ['id', 'name', 'slug', 'group', 'comments', 'custom_fields']
+ fields = ['id', 'name', 'slug', 'group', 'description', 'comments', 'custom_fields']
class TenantNestedSerializer(TenantSerializer):