diff --git a/src/plugins/home/public/application/components/add_data/__snapshots__/add_data.test.tsx.snap b/src/plugins/home/public/application/components/add_data/__snapshots__/add_data.test.tsx.snap
index deb557611b50..cc28c695a892 100644
--- a/src/plugins/home/public/application/components/add_data/__snapshots__/add_data.test.tsx.snap
+++ b/src/plugins/home/public/application/components/add_data/__snapshots__/add_data.test.tsx.snap
@@ -25,26 +25,6 @@ exports[`AddData render 1`] = `
         </h2>
       </EuiTitle>
     </EuiFlexItem>
-    <EuiFlexItem
-      className="homDataAdd__actions"
-      grow={false}
-    >
-      <div>
-        <EuiButtonEmpty
-          className="homDataAdd__actionButton"
-          flush="left"
-          href="#/tutorial_directory/sampleData"
-          iconType="visTable"
-          size="xs"
-        >
-          <FormattedMessage
-            defaultMessage="Try our sample data"
-            id="home.addData.sampleDataButtonLabel"
-            values={Object {}}
-          />
-        </EuiButtonEmpty>
-      </div>
-    </EuiFlexItem>
   </EuiFlexGroup>
   <EuiSpacer
     size="m"
@@ -56,7 +36,7 @@ exports[`AddData render 1`] = `
       key="home_tutorial_directory"
     >
       <Synopsis
-        description="Ingest data from popular apps and services."
+        description="Get started with sample data, visualizations, and dashboards."
         iconType="indexOpen"
         id="home_tutorial_directory"
         isBeta={false}
diff --git a/src/plugins/home/public/application/components/add_data/add_data.test.tsx b/src/plugins/home/public/application/components/add_data/add_data.test.tsx
index 3f0bae0a2b20..5e3a9e976050 100644
--- a/src/plugins/home/public/application/components/add_data/add_data.test.tsx
+++ b/src/plugins/home/public/application/components/add_data/add_data.test.tsx
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ const addBasePathMock = jest.fn((path: string) => (path ? path : 'path'));
 const mockFeatures = [
   {
     category: 'data',
-    description: 'Ingest data from popular apps and services.',
+    description: 'Get started with sample data, visualizations, and dashboards.',
     showOnHomePage: true,
     icon: 'indexOpen',
     id: 'home_tutorial_directory',
diff --git a/src/plugins/home/public/application/components/add_data/add_data.tsx b/src/plugins/home/public/application/components/add_data/add_data.tsx
index 7d53c50ed212..22002c4218ef 100644
--- a/src/plugins/home/public/application/components/add_data/add_data.tsx
+++ b/src/plugins/home/public/application/components/add_data/add_data.tsx
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 
 import React, { FC } from 'react';
 import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
-import { EuiButtonEmpty, EuiFlexGroup, EuiFlexItem, EuiSpacer, EuiTitle } from '@elastic/eui';
+import { EuiFlexGroup, EuiFlexItem, EuiSpacer, EuiTitle } from '@elastic/eui';
 import { FormattedMessage } from '@osd/i18n/react';
 // @ts-expect-error untyped service
 import { FeatureCatalogueEntry } from '../../services';
@@ -55,23 +55,6 @@ export const AddData: FC<Props> = ({ addBasePath, features }) => (
           </h2>
         </EuiTitle>
       </EuiFlexItem>
-
-      <EuiFlexItem className="homDataAdd__actions" grow={false}>
-        <div>
-          <EuiButtonEmpty
-            className="homDataAdd__actionButton"
-            flush="left"
-            href="#/tutorial_directory/sampleData"
-            iconType="visTable"
-            size="xs"
-          >
-            <FormattedMessage
-              id="home.addData.sampleDataButtonLabel"
-              defaultMessage="Try our sample data"
-            />
-          </EuiButtonEmpty>
-        </div>
-      </EuiFlexItem>
     </EuiFlexGroup>
 
     <EuiSpacer size="m" />
diff --git a/src/plugins/home/public/application/components/tutorial_directory.js b/src/plugins/home/public/application/components/tutorial_directory.js
index 1bb337b3ecdb..84e2c49f8183 100644
--- a/src/plugins/home/public/application/components/tutorial_directory.js
+++ b/src/plugins/home/public/application/components/tutorial_directory.js
@@ -66,45 +66,11 @@ class TutorialDirectoryUi extends React.Component {
   constructor(props) {
     super(props);
 
-    this.tabs = [
-      {
-        id: ALL_TAB_ID,
-        name: this.props.intl.formatMessage({
-          id: 'home.tutorial.tabs.allTitle',
-          defaultMessage: 'All',
-        }),
-      },
-      {
-        id: 'logging',
-        name: this.props.intl.formatMessage({
-          id: 'home.tutorial.tabs.loggingTitle',
-          defaultMessage: 'Logs',
-        }),
-      },
-      {
-        id: 'metrics',
-        name: this.props.intl.formatMessage({
-          id: 'home.tutorial.tabs.metricsTitle',
-          defaultMessage: 'Metrics',
-        }),
-      },
-      {
-        id: 'security',
-        name: this.props.intl.formatMessage({
-          id: 'home.tutorial.tabs.securitySolutionTitle',
-          defaultMessage: 'Security',
-        }),
-      },
-      {
-        id: SAMPLE_DATA_TAB_ID,
-        name: this.props.intl.formatMessage({
-          id: 'home.tutorial.tabs.sampleDataTitle',
-          defaultMessage: 'Sample data',
-        }),
-      },
-    ];
+    // TODO: Enable the tabs once we have instructions
+    // and sample code snippets to instruct users to add data
+    this.tabs = [];
 
-    let openTab = ALL_TAB_ID;
+    let openTab = SAMPLE_DATA_TAB_ID;
     if (
       props.openTab &&
       this.tabs.some((tab) => {
@@ -284,7 +250,7 @@ class TutorialDirectoryUi extends React.Component {
               <h1>
                 <FormattedMessage
                   id="home.tutorial.addDataToOpenSearchDashboardsTitle"
-                  defaultMessage="Add data"
+                  defaultMessage="Add sample data"
                 />
               </h1>
             </EuiTitle>
diff --git a/src/plugins/home/public/plugin.ts b/src/plugins/home/public/plugin.ts
index 63c2bb345cf8..eef92ea8ec99 100644
--- a/src/plugins/home/public/plugin.ts
+++ b/src/plugins/home/public/plugin.ts
@@ -134,10 +134,10 @@ export class HomePublicPlugin
     featureCatalogue.register({
       id: 'home_tutorial_directory',
       title: i18n.translate('home.tutorialDirectory.featureCatalogueTitle', {
-        defaultMessage: 'Add data',
+        defaultMessage: 'Add sample data',
       }),
       description: i18n.translate('home.tutorialDirectory.featureCatalogueDescription', {
-        defaultMessage: 'Ingest data from popular apps and services.',
+        defaultMessage: 'Get started with sample data, visualizations, and dashboards.',
       }),
       icon: 'indexOpen',
       showOnHomePage: true,
diff --git a/src/plugins/opensearch_dashboards_overview/public/components/add_data/__snapshots__/add_data.test.tsx.snap b/src/plugins/opensearch_dashboards_overview/public/components/add_data/__snapshots__/add_data.test.tsx.snap
index 47c40e3cf553..5d6b64e48148 100644
--- a/src/plugins/opensearch_dashboards_overview/public/components/add_data/__snapshots__/add_data.test.tsx.snap
+++ b/src/plugins/opensearch_dashboards_overview/public/components/add_data/__snapshots__/add_data.test.tsx.snap
@@ -25,28 +25,6 @@ exports[`AddData render 1`] = `
         </h2>
       </EuiTitle>
     </EuiFlexItem>
-    <EuiFlexItem
-      className="osdOverviewDataAdd__actions"
-      grow={false}
-    >
-      <RedirectAppLinks>
-        <div>
-          <EuiButtonEmpty
-            className="osdOverviewDataAdd__actionButton"
-            flush="left"
-            href="/app/home#/tutorial_directory/sampleData"
-            iconType="visTable"
-            size="xs"
-          >
-            <FormattedMessage
-              defaultMessage="Try our sample data"
-              id="opensearchDashboardsOverview.addData.sampleDataButtonLabel"
-              values={Object {}}
-            />
-          </EuiButtonEmpty>
-        </div>
-      </RedirectAppLinks>
-    </EuiFlexItem>
   </EuiFlexGroup>
   <EuiSpacer
     size="m"
@@ -59,7 +37,7 @@ exports[`AddData render 1`] = `
     >
       <RedirectAppLinks>
         <Synopsis
-          description="Ingest data from popular apps and services."
+          description="Get started with sample data, visualizations, and dashboards."
           iconType="indexOpen"
           id="home_tutorial_directory"
           isBeta={false}
diff --git a/src/plugins/opensearch_dashboards_overview/public/components/add_data/add_data.test.tsx b/src/plugins/opensearch_dashboards_overview/public/components/add_data/add_data.test.tsx
index 31125483b808..0c032ddb9af6 100644
--- a/src/plugins/opensearch_dashboards_overview/public/components/add_data/add_data.test.tsx
+++ b/src/plugins/opensearch_dashboards_overview/public/components/add_data/add_data.test.tsx
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ import { FeatureCatalogueCategory } from 'src/plugins/home/public';
 const mockFeatures = [
   {
     category: FeatureCatalogueCategory.DATA,
-    description: 'Ingest data from popular apps and services.',
+    description: 'Get started with sample data, visualizations, and dashboards.',
     showOnHomePage: true,
     icon: 'indexOpen',
     id: 'home_tutorial_directory',
diff --git a/src/plugins/opensearch_dashboards_overview/public/components/add_data/add_data.tsx b/src/plugins/opensearch_dashboards_overview/public/components/add_data/add_data.tsx
index 4d04c58ba686..973054fb0f6e 100644
--- a/src/plugins/opensearch_dashboards_overview/public/components/add_data/add_data.tsx
+++ b/src/plugins/opensearch_dashboards_overview/public/components/add_data/add_data.tsx
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 
 import React, { FC } from 'react';
 import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
-import { EuiButtonEmpty, EuiFlexGroup, EuiFlexItem, EuiSpacer, EuiTitle } from '@elastic/eui';
+import { EuiFlexGroup, EuiFlexItem, EuiSpacer, EuiTitle } from '@elastic/eui';
 import { FormattedMessage } from '@osd/i18n/react';
 import { CoreStart } from 'opensearch-dashboards/public';
 import {
@@ -66,25 +66,6 @@ export const AddData: FC<Props> = ({ addBasePath, features }) => {
             </h2>
           </EuiTitle>
         </EuiFlexItem>
-
-        <EuiFlexItem className="osdOverviewDataAdd__actions" grow={false}>
-          <RedirectAppLinks application={application}>
-            <div>
-              <EuiButtonEmpty
-                className="osdOverviewDataAdd__actionButton"
-                flush="left"
-                href={addBasePath('/app/home#/tutorial_directory/sampleData')}
-                iconType="visTable"
-                size="xs"
-              >
-                <FormattedMessage
-                  id="opensearchDashboardsOverview.addData.sampleDataButtonLabel"
-                  defaultMessage="Try our sample data"
-                />
-              </EuiButtonEmpty>
-            </div>
-          </RedirectAppLinks>
-        </EuiFlexItem>
       </EuiFlexGroup>
 
       <EuiSpacer size="m" />
diff --git a/test/functional/apps/home/_add_data.js b/test/functional/apps/home/_add_data.js
index 5e121f56b4e0..ca2f914c084e 100644
--- a/test/functional/apps/home/_add_data.js
+++ b/test/functional/apps/home/_add_data.js
@@ -37,12 +37,12 @@ export default function ({ getService, getPageObjects }) {
   const PageObjects = getPageObjects(['common', 'header', 'home', 'dashboard']);
 
   describe('add data tutorials', function describeIndexTests() {
-    it('directory should display registered tutorials', async () => {
+    it('directory should not display registered tutorials', async () => {
       await PageObjects.common.navigateToUrl('home', 'tutorial_directory', { useActualUrl: true });
       await PageObjects.header.waitUntilLoadingHasFinished();
       await retry.try(async () => {
         const tutorialExists = await PageObjects.home.doesSynopsisExist('netflowlogs');
-        expect(tutorialExists).to.be(true);
+        expect(tutorialExists).to.be(false);
       });
     });
   });