# Best-Practices Guides

This section offers guidance on how to make the best use of ThousandEyes in your environment.

## [Platform Best Practices](https://docs.thousandeyes.com/product-documentation/best-practices/platform-best-practices)

Use these guides to deploy and optimize ThousandEyes across agents, tests, dashboards, and alerts, including agent placement, account groups, test protocol choice, dashboard storytelling, and alert tuning.

## [Monitoring Third-Party Applications](https://docs.thousandeyes.com/product-documentation/best-practices/monitoring-third-party-applications)

Apply the platform best practices above to specific SaaS applications, with dedicated guides for Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Salesforce, Slack, Webex Meetings and Calling, and Zoom.


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