DBFS REST API - unable to access or upload experiment artifacts - permission denied

[Tom12]

Hello,

we are trying to achieve artifacts upload to MLflow experiments via REST API. (We have an edge case when we need to do that)

But if we try to use DBFS API to upload an artifact, we are not allowed. Always ends up with:

• `PERMISSION_DENIED: No operations allowed on this path`

We have Databricks on Azure.

Any idea why can this be happening? Or how to upload MLflow experiment artifacts via Databricks APIs?

Thank you!

[Debayan]

Hi, Could you please confirm the destination permissions if there are right permissions on it?

[Tom12]

Hi, I have administrator access right on the workspace.

My steps:

1. Creating a new access token in Databricks workspace User Settings
2. Creating a new experiment
3. Creating a new experiment run via MLflow rest API - https://mlflow.org/docs/latest/rest-api.html#create-run - with created token ... it returns artifact URI ("artifact_uri": "dbfs:/databricks/mlflow-tracking/1293313707004507/02f3021af00940fc9f8f93a7f64916ec/artifacts",)
4. Trying to upload file via https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/dev-tools/api/latest/dbfs#--put

Step 4. always faileswith `PERMISSION_DENIED: No operations allowed on this path` with payload:

```

{

    "path": "dbfs:/databricks/mlflow-tracking/1293313707004507/02f3021af00940fc9f8f93a7f64916ec/artifacts/HelloWorld.txt",

    "contents": "SGVsbG8sIFdvcmxkIQ==",

    "overwrite": true

}

```

and if I change the path to `"/dbfs/databricks/mlflow-tracking/1293313707004507/02f3021af00940fc9f8f93a7f64916ec/artifacts/HelloWorld.txt` it works but the file is not uploaded under my Experiment run.

Not sure if this action is even allowed, to upload file via DBFS rest API to experiment runs. Or if I am using incorrect DBFS path or endpoint.

Thank you for you help, Tomas

[Anonymous]

Hi @Tomas Hanzlik​ 

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Thanks!

[Tom12]

Hi @Vidula Khanna​,

unfortunately wasn't able to solve this yet. Help would be welcomed 🙂

Thank you!

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