# Guides

> How-to guides for StormForge

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Section pages:

- [Try a sample application on your own cluster](/docs/guides/showcase-app/): Load-generating sample app for trying StormForge on your own cluster
- [Connect AI agents to StormForge with MCP](/docs/guides/mcp-server/): Hosted and local MCP server setup for AI agents
- [Try the StormForge sandbox](/docs/guides/sandbox/): View-only StormForge environment with no installation required
- [Manage workloads](/docs/guides/workload-management/): Add, delete, and restore workloads, or exclude them from optimization
- [Monitoring the health of StormForge](/docs/guides/monitoring-health-optlive/): Monitor StormForge health with status metrics, logs, and component alerts
- [Configure applier alerts](/docs/guides/applier-alerts/): Send HTTP webhook notifications when the StormForge Applier applies a recommendation to a workload
- [How to use StormForge and Argo CD together](/docs/guides/argo-cd/): Argo CD configuration to ignore StormForge-managed fields
- [How to use StormForge and Flux together](/docs/guides/flux/): Use a webhook-based apply method, and configure drift detection ignore rules for HPAs
- [StormForge Kustomize export](/docs/guides/kustomize-export/): Automate committing patches to Git and deploying through CI
- [Import recommendation data into APM tools](/docs/guides/apm_export/): Prometheus scrape job for importing recommendation data into APM tools
- [Kubernetes cost allocation](/docs/guides/kubernetes-cost-allocation/): StormForge sends container usage metrics to our Costs Platform to attribute Kubernetes costs to namespaces and workloads
- [Transparent proxy configuration](/docs/guides/proxy-config/): StormForge configuration for a transparent proxy
- [Manage secrets with a third-party credential manager](/docs/guides/manage-secrets/): StormForge Agent secrets managed by a third-party credential manager
- [Subscribe through AWS Marketplace](/docs/guides/aws_marketplace/): Set up StormForge pay-as-you-go billing in AWS Marketplace