Filesystem capacity and performance metrics and visualizations

A system for generating a display of a graphical user interface for a filesystem over a network, comprising:

• a memory that stores instructions;
• a transceiver to manage communication over the network;
• and
• one or more processors that execute the instructions to perform actions, comprising:
• determining one of more displayable features for one or more directories based on one or more metrics of the one or more directories, wherein the file system is a hierarchical tree that includes a root node and each non-leaf node of the tree is represented as each directory;
• employing one or more filesystem objects within each directory to determine the one or more metrics for the one or more displayable features based on persistent hierarchical aggregation of one or more attributes of the one or more filesystem objects for one or more activity types;
• displaying, for an activity type, a displayable feature in the graphical user interface that is employable to manage one or more resources for one or more portions of the hierarchical file system.

A computer-readable non-transitive storage media that includes a plurality of instructions for generating a display of a graphical user interface for a filesystem over a network, wherein execution of the instructions by one or more processors performs actions, comprising:

• determining one of more displayable features for one or more directories based on one or more metrics of the one or more directories, wherein the file system is a hierarchical tree that includes a root node and each non-leaf node of the tree is represented as each directory;
• employing one or more filesystem objects within each directory to determine the one or more metrics for the one or more displayable features based on persistent hierarchical aggregation of one or more attributes of the one or more filesystem objects for one or more activity types;
• displaying, for an activity type, a current displayable feature in the graphical user interface that is employable to manage one or more resources for one or more portions of the hierarchical file system, wherein the one or more metrics are persistently stored and updated at each corresponding directory to reduce latency and improve computing efficiency in the displaying of the current displayable feature by eliminating a step of completely traversing at least that portion of the file system's hierarchical tree corresponding to the activity type of the current displayable feature.