Buildings generate a constant stream of signals—alarms, sensor readings, access logs, and vendor alerts—but most teams treat those signals as isolated events. This episode reframes modern buildings as observable systems, showing how simple instrumentation, meaningful metrics, and pragmatic alerting turn noise into actionable insights. Alex Morgan and Michael Harrington map observability concepts to real operational problems: spotting gradual degradations before tenants notice, reducing false alarms that waste vendor and staff time, and making post-incident troubleshooting faster and less contentious. Listeners will get a realistic playbook for choosing what to instrument, who owns dashboards and alerts, and how to balance visibility against alert fatigue and cost. The emphasis stays practical: no vendor endorsements or deep configuration guides—just tradeoffs, governance, and operational patterns that fit typical property team budgets and staff levels.