# Best practices

> Tips to help you get the most from StormForge

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Get the most value out of StormForge and minimize unexpected results by following these best practices.


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Check out the [Getting started with configuring StormForge](/docs/configure/configure-opt-settings/) guide, which discusses the five most important settings and whether you need to consider adjusting them to suit your organization's requirements.
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## Workload settings

### Generate recommendations once daily

A once-daily recommendation schedule is considered a best practice in stable or production environments (this is the default schedule when you roll out StormForge). For details about this setting, see [Recommendation schedule][schedule] in the Schedule topic.

### Apply recommendations automatically

Before configuring StormForge to automatically apply recommendations, you should review and selectively apply the first few recommendations to canary workloads to see what happens. Then, as you trust recommendations more, you can enable them to be applied automatically on more workloads.

The [StormForge Applier][applier] is installed by default. When you're ready to have StormForge apply scheduled recommendations automatically, configure StormForge to [deploy recommendations automatically][auto-deploy].

[schedule]: /docs/configure/settings/schedule/
[applier]: /docs/installation/install/#stormforge-applier
[auto-deploy]: /docs/configure/settings/apply-settings/