diff --git a/ultralytics/yolo/utils/callbacks/mlflow.py b/ultralytics/yolo/utils/callbacks/mlflow.py
index e61ca3db0b..6c4b798b98 100644
--- a/ultralytics/yolo/utils/callbacks/mlflow.py
+++ b/ultralytics/yolo/utils/callbacks/mlflow.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ def on_pretrain_routine_end(trainer):
         mlflow_location = os.environ['MLFLOW_TRACKING_URI']  # "http://192.168.xxx.xxx:5000"
         mlflow.set_tracking_uri(mlflow_location)
 
-        experiment_name = os.environ.get('MLFLOW_EXPERIMENT') or trainer.args.project or '/Shared/YOLOv8'
+        experiment_name = os.environ.get('MLFLOW_EXPERIMENT_NAME') or trainer.args.project or '/Shared/YOLOv8'
         run_name = os.environ.get('MLFLOW_RUN') or trainer.args.name
         experiment = mlflow.get_experiment_by_name(experiment_name)
         if experiment is None: