# Guides

> Guides for deeper integrations with Agones

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LLMS index: [llms.txt](/site/llms.txt)

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Section pages:

- [Feature Stages](/site/docs/guides/feature-stages/): This page provides a description of the various stages that Agones features can be in, and the relative maturity and support level expected for each level.
- [Best Practices](/site/docs/guides/best-practices/): Best practices for running Agones in production.
- [Agones Game Server Client SDKs](/site/docs/guides/client-sdks/): The SDKs are integration points for game servers with Agones itself.
- [Windows Gameservers](/site/docs/guides/windows-gameservers/): Run `GameServers` on Kubernetes nodes with the Windows operating system.
- [Fleet Updates](/site/docs/guides/fleet-updates/): Common patterns and approaches for updating Fleets with newer and/or different versions of your `GameServer` configuration.
- [GameServer Health Checking](/site/docs/guides/health-checking/): Health checking exists to track the overall healthy state of the GameServer,  such that action can be taken when a something goes wrong or a GameServer drops into an Unhealthy state
- [GameServer Counters and Lists](/site/docs/guides/counters-and-lists/): Track, allocate and auto-scale based on user defined counters and lists stored on a `GameServer`.
- [Player Tracking](/site/docs/guides/player-tracking/): Track player connections, disconnections, counts and capacities through the Agones SDK
- [Local Game Server](/site/docs/guides/local-game-server/): Register your local game server with Agones.
- [Latency Testing with Multiple Clusters](/site/docs/guides/ping-service/): When running multiple Agones clusters around the world, you may need to have clients determine which cluster to connect to based on latency.
- [Metrics](/site/docs/guides/metrics/)
- [Access Agones via the Kubernetes API](/site/docs/guides/access-api/): It's likely that we will want to programmatically interact with Agones. Everything that can be done via the `kubectl` and yaml configurations can also be done via the [Kubernetes API](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/kubernetes-api/).
- [Troubleshooting](/site/docs/guides/troubleshooting/): Troubleshooting guides and steps.