diff --git a/ui/spec/utils/timeSeriesToDygraphSpec.js b/ui/spec/utils/timeSeriesToDygraphSpec.js
index 0b3b6c72a..8a9442cc7 100644
--- a/ui/spec/utils/timeSeriesToDygraphSpec.js
+++ b/ui/spec/utils/timeSeriesToDygraphSpec.js
@@ -176,4 +176,64 @@ describe('timeSeriesToDygraph', () => {
 
     expect(actual.dygraphSeries).to.deep.equal(expected.dygraphSeries);
   });
+
+  it('parses a raw InfluxDB response into a dygraph friendly data format', () => {
+    const influxResponse = [
+      {
+        "response":
+        {
+          "results": [
+            {
+              "series": [
+                {
+                  "name":"mb",
+                  "columns": ["time","f1"],
+                  "values": [[1000, 1],[2000, 2]],
+                },
+              ]
+            },
+            {
+              "series": [
+                {
+                  "name":"ma",
+                  "columns": ["time","f1"],
+                  "values": [[1000, 1],[2000, 2]],
+                },
+              ]
+            },
+            {
+              "series": [
+                {
+                  "name":"mc",
+                  "columns": ["time","f2"],
+                  "values": [[2000, 3],[4000, 4]],
+                },
+              ]
+            },
+            {
+              "series": [
+                {
+                  "name":"mc",
+                  "columns": ["time","f1"],
+                  "values": [[2000, 3],[4000, 4]],
+                },
+              ]
+            },
+          ],
+        },
+      }
+    ];
+
+    const actual = timeSeriesToDygraph(influxResponse);
+
+    const expected = [
+      'time',
+      `ma.f1`,
+      `mb.f1`,
+      `mc.f1`,
+      `mc.f2`,
+    ];
+
+    expect(actual.labels).to.deep.equal(expected);
+  });
 });
diff --git a/ui/src/utils/timeSeriesToDygraph.js b/ui/src/utils/timeSeriesToDygraph.js
index 9702842c4..a13d99410 100644
--- a/ui/src/utils/timeSeriesToDygraph.js
+++ b/ui/src/utils/timeSeriesToDygraph.js
@@ -148,8 +148,15 @@ export default function timeSeriesToDygraph(raw = [], activeQueryIndex) {
     });
   }
 
+  function sortLabels() {
+    const time = labels.shift();
+    labels.sort();
+    labels.unshift(time);
+    return labels;
+  }
+
   return {
-    labels,
+    labels: sortLabels(labels),
     timeSeries: buildTimeSeries(),
     dygraphSeries,
   };