# Dashboard Provisioning - cannot save provisioned dashboards

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/dashboard-provisioning-cannot-save-provisioned-dashboards/31175>\
**Category:** Grafana\
**Created:** [May 29, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/dashboard-provisioning-cannot-save-provisioned-dashboards/31175 "2020-05-29T18:48:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![tlkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@tlkamp](https://community.grafana.com/u/tlkamp)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/dashboard-provisioning-cannot-save-provisioned-dashboards/31175/1 "2020-05-29T18:48:07Z")

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**Platform:** Kubernetes  
**Environment:** Grafana Docker container  
**Grafana versions:** 6.5.2, 6.7.1, 7.0.0

I have the following dashboard provisioner defined:

```
apiVersion: 1
providers:
  - name: 'backups'
    orgId: 1
    folder: 'monitoring infrastructure'
    type: file
    disableDeletion: false
    editable: true
    updateIntervalSeconds: 10
    allowUiUpdates: true
    options:
      path: /var/lib/grafana/dashboards/monitoring-infrastructure

```

From what I can tell, the provisioner should allow me to update and save dashboards in the Grafana UI. However, when I try to do that, I get the “Cannot save provisioned dashboard” dialog mentioned in the documentation here:

[https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/administration/provisioning/#dashboards](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/administration/provisioning/#dashboards)

I am also getting the following message in the logs, which seems to correlate with each provisioned dashboard that I am unable to save:

```
msg="Failed to create ProvisionedExternalId" logger=http.server err=Rel: can't make /var/lib/grafana/dashboards/monitoring-infrastructure/my-dashboard.json relative to ''

```

Is there a known issue with dashboard provisioning like this, or anything to check? I can’t determine the cause of the relative pathing issue either.

Thanks.