I think the tagging features in the upcoming 0.9.0 release [1] will help with the navigation of metrics. With that we're adding new types of queries to help in discovery. [2]

[1] - http://influxdb.com/blog/2014/12/08/clustering_tags_and_enha... [2] - https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/blob/master/QUERIES.md#...