diff --git a/cmd/influxd/extra.go b/cmd/influxd/extra.go
index bbe74ebaaf..3aa2ab0554 100644
--- a/cmd/influxd/extra.go
+++ b/cmd/influxd/extra.go
@@ -198,18 +198,12 @@ func (s *store) GroupRead(ctx context.Context, req *ReadRequest) (GroupResultSet
 }
 
 const (
-	fieldTagKey       = "_f"
-	measurementTagKey = "_m"
-
 	fieldKey       = "_field"
 	measurementKey = "_measurement"
 	valueKey       = "_value"
 )
 
 var (
-	fieldTagKeyBytes       = []byte(fieldTagKey)
-	measurementTagKeyBytes = []byte(measurementTagKey)
-
 	fieldKeyBytes       = []byte(fieldKey)
 	measurementKeyBytes = []byte(measurementKey)
 )
@@ -315,7 +309,7 @@ func (c *indexSeriesCursor) Next() *SeriesRow {
 	//TODO(edd): check this.
 	c.row.SeriesTags = copyTags(c.row.SeriesTags, sr.Tags)
 	c.row.Tags = copyTags(c.row.Tags, sr.Tags)
-	c.row.Field = string(c.row.Tags.Get(fieldTagKeyBytes))
+	c.row.Field = string(c.row.Tags.Get(tsdb.FieldKeyTagKeyBytes))
 
 	normalizeTags(c.row.Tags)
 
@@ -10467,14 +10461,14 @@ func toStoragePredicate(n semantic.Expression, objectName string) (*Node, error)
 			return &Node{
 				NodeType: NodeTypeTagRef,
 				Value: &Node_TagRefValue{
-					TagRefValue: fieldTagKey,
+					TagRefValue: tsdb.FieldKeyTagKey,
 				},
 			}, nil
 		case measurementKey:
 			return &Node{
 				NodeType: NodeTypeTagRef,
 				Value: &Node_TagRefValue{
-					TagRefValue: measurementTagKey,
+					TagRefValue: tsdb.MeasurementTagKey,
 				},
 			}, nil
 		case valueKey:
diff --git a/tsdb/explode.go b/tsdb/explode.go
index b6fac78706..d3dce92724 100644
--- a/tsdb/explode.go
+++ b/tsdb/explode.go
@@ -6,6 +6,17 @@ import (
 	"github.com/influxdata/platform/models"
 )
 
+// Values used to store the field key and measurement name as tags.
+const (
+	FieldKeyTagKey    = "_f"
+	MeasurementTagKey = "_m"
+)
+
+var (
+	FieldKeyTagKeyBytes    = []byte(FieldKeyTagKey)
+	MeasurementTagKeyBytes = []byte(MeasurementTagKey)
+)
+
 // ExplodePoints creates a list of points that only contains one field per point. It also
 // moves the measurement to a tag, and changes the measurement to be the provided argument.
 func ExplodePoints(org, bucket []byte, points []models.Point) ([]models.Point, error) {
@@ -23,8 +34,8 @@ func ExplodePoints(org, bucket []byte, points []models.Point) ([]models.Point, e
 		itr := pt.FieldIterator()
 		for itr.Next() {
 			tags = tags[:0]
-			tags = append(tags, models.NewTag([]byte("_f"), itr.FieldKey()))
-			tags = append(tags, models.NewTag([]byte("_m"), pt.Name()))
+			tags = append(tags, models.NewTag(FieldKeyTagKeyBytes, itr.FieldKey()))
+			tags = append(tags, models.NewTag(MeasurementTagKeyBytes, pt.Name()))
 			pt.ForEachTag(func(k, v []byte) bool {
 				tags = append(tags, models.NewTag(k, v))
 				return true
diff --git a/tsdb/shard.go b/tsdb/shard.go
index 60f195b1d7..0379f6cfce 100644
--- a/tsdb/shard.go
+++ b/tsdb/shard.go
@@ -224,11 +224,6 @@ func (s *Shard) Index() (Index, error) {
 
 // WritePoints will write the raw data points and any new metadata to the index in the shard.
 func (s *Shard) WritePoints(points []models.Point) error {
-	points, err := explodePoints([]byte("insert-org-bucket"), points)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
 	collection := NewSeriesCollection(points)
 
 	j := 0