It's specifically a TSDB built for metrics and instrumentation. Basically intended to be Google's Borgmon for everybody else in the same way Kubernetes is essentially Borg for everybdoy else.
It is sort of nice to have dimensions for rollup/filtering instead of doing weird name mangling like graphite does. For example one might add a dimension of build # or release version to each metric.
Having a dimension like build # you could even effectively say if your releases are improving performance wise and graph it. TBH haven't done it yet but I think it would be useful instead of just manually doing it with time filtering.
You can also shove in multiple related metrics as part of the same measurement.
https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v0.13/write_protocols/l...