Not everyone knows that HSRP, a fault-tolerant default gateway protocol, has two versions: version 1 (the default) and version two. The second version was integrated from IOS Release 12.2(25)S.
HSRP Version 2 features:

It advertises and learns millisecond timer values. This change ensures stability of the HSRP groups in all cases.
It expands the group number range from 0 to 4095 [...]

As you see in the article “Implementing High Availability with HSRP“, it is quite simple configure Hot Standby Router Protocol.
Some cases require a custom configuration, using priority, track, preempt etc…and these are:

The standby preempt interface configuration command allows the router to become the active router when its priority is higher than all other HSRP-configured routers [...]

The Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) is a Cisco proprietary first-hop redundancy protocol (FHRP) designed to allow for transparent fail-over of the first-hop IP router, and has been described in detail in RFC 2281.
HSRP provides high network availability by providing first-hop routing redundancy for IP hosts on Ethernet, Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), Bridge-Group Virtual [...]