--- title: Best Practice Guides description: "Best Practices: Session Management" component: solution-guides page_id: solution-guides:best_practice_guides:htg_best_practice_guides canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/solution-guides/best_practice_guides/htg_best_practice_guides.html revdate: April 8, 2025 --- # Best Practice Guides | Use case | Description | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [Best Practices: Session Management](bp_session_mgmt.html) | Session management is the process of managing user sessions in a web application. A session is a series of interactions between users and a web application that take place over a period of time. | | [Best Practices: Elevated Rights for PingDirectory](bp_pd_elevated_rights.html) | This document provides an overview of Ping Identity's recommendations for management of elevated rights in PingDirectory. | | [Best Practices: Performance Testing PingDirectory](bp_pd_performance_testing.html) | PingDirectory ships with several tools that you can use for performance testing. | | [Best Practices: PingDirectory Operational Support](bp_pd_operational_support.html) | This document contains recommendations and best practices for the PingDirectory application onboarding process. Additionally, this document provides recommendations on supporting processes that could be used in conjunction with application integration. | | [Best Practices: PingFederate SAML Signing Certificates](htg_best_practice_pf_saml_signing_cert.html) | The following reference guide details the best practices for managing PingFederate Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) *(tooltip: \
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)* signing certificate settings, depending on your partners' preferences. | | [Best Practices: Performance Testing for PingFederate](bp_pf_performance_testing.html) | This document provides an overview as well as general guidelines related to performance testing methodology for testing a PingFederate server prior to that system entering a customer production environment. | | [Best Practices: Journey to Passwordless](bp_journey_to_passwordless.html) | Learn about how passwordless authentication reduces friction for users. |