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title: "Work with demo data in Grafana Cloud | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "How to set up and use demo data in Grafana Cloud"
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# Work with demo data in Grafana Cloud

If you want to explore Grafana Cloud initially without instrumenting and connecting your own applications, you can install a set of example data sources and two sets of dashboards that cover the following use cases:

- A demo tailored for Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) featuring metrics, logs, and traces generated by a fictional Pizza-as-a-Service website
- A weather demo that shows weather data from various locations worldwide

These demo data sources and dashboards provide you with visualizations that you can explore.

> Note
> 
> The data sources used in these demonstrations are provided and hosted free of charge by Grafana Cloud. You are *not billed* for using them.

## Install demo data sources and dashboards

To install the demo data source and dashboards, complete the following steps:

1. Sign in to your Grafana Cloud account.
2. On the left navigation, click **Apps > Demo Data Dashboards**.
3. Select a demo, and click on **Install Dashboards**.
   
   This installs the required data sources and dashboards into your Grafana Cloud instance.
   
   > Note
   > 
   > As the installation uses your current level of access, installation can only be performed by users who can create data sources and dashboards, such as the built-in `Administrator` role.
4. To reset the dashboards to their original state at any point, click **Reset dashboards**.

## Explore the data

A folder with the same name as the demo appears in your list of dashboards. You can also build your own dashboards based on the `grafanacloud-play-{logs,prom,traces}` data sources.

### SRE demo

The SRE demo folder contains dashboards that:

- Provide an overview of system health
- Contain detailed response timings for every subsystem
- Show business metrics for the application

You can influence the metrics by checking out the live site at [`quickpizza.grafana.fun`](https://quickpizza.grafana.fun/).

### Weather demo

The weather demo has two dashboards that offer a detailed overview of the weather. Both dashboards show the same data, and differ only in showing imperial or metric units.

## Advanced features

You can also use the data provided to explore more advanced Grafana Cloud features such as [Application Observability](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/application-observability/) and [Kubernetes Monitoring](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/kubernetes-monitoring/). To do this, select the `grafanacloud-play` data sources in the respective plugin settings.

## Uninstall demo data sources and dashboards

1. To remove the demo data sources and dashboards, click the `Remove` button of the respective plugin.
2. After all dashboards are removed, remove the data sources directly from the Demo Data Dashboards app.