Systems and methods for assessing cooling performance

Examples of the disclosure include a method comprising receiving information-technology-device information indicative of IT equipment and including information-technology-device-location information and temperature information; determining, based on the information-technology-device information, an IT-equipment-cooling assessment; receiving cooling-unit information indicative of air output by the IT equipment to the cooling units and/or provided by the cooling units to the IT equipment; determining, based on the cooling-unit information, a cooling-airflow-return effectiveness indicative of how effectively the cooling units capture air output by the IT equipment and/or a cooling-airflow-supply effectiveness indicative of how effectively the cooling units provide air to the IT equipment; and displaying a simulation display depicting the IT equipment, an effectiveness indicator for the cooling-airflow-return effectiveness and/or the cooling-airflow-supply effectiveness, and a respective IT indicator for each IT-equipment-cooling assessment, wherein each respective IT indicator is displayed in association with a respective unit of IT equipment to which the respective IT indicator corresponds.