diff --git a/java/src/main/java/monasca/api/infrastructure/persistence/influxdb/InfluxV9MeasurementRepo.java b/java/src/main/java/monasca/api/infrastructure/persistence/influxdb/InfluxV9MeasurementRepo.java
index 2b9d2cbdf..cd7ab596a 100644
--- a/java/src/main/java/monasca/api/infrastructure/persistence/influxdb/InfluxV9MeasurementRepo.java
+++ b/java/src/main/java/monasca/api/infrastructure/persistence/influxdb/InfluxV9MeasurementRepo.java
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import org.joda.time.DateTime;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.HashMap;
@@ -141,11 +140,7 @@ public class InfluxV9MeasurementRepo implements MeasurementRepo {
                              influxV9Utils.filterPrivateTags(serie.getTags()));
 
         for (String[] values : serie.getValues()) {
-          final int length = values[0].length();
-          final String millisecond = values[0].substring(20, length-1);
-          final String millisecond_3d = StringUtils.rightPad(millisecond, 3, '0');
-          final String timestamp = values[0].substring(0, 19) + '.' + millisecond_3d + 'Z';
-
+          final String timestamp = influxV9Utils.threeDigitMillisTimestamp(values[0]);
           measurements.addMeasurement(
               new Object[]{timestamp, Double.parseDouble(values[1]), getValueMeta(values)});
         }
diff --git a/java/src/main/java/monasca/api/infrastructure/persistence/influxdb/InfluxV9Utils.java b/java/src/main/java/monasca/api/infrastructure/persistence/influxdb/InfluxV9Utils.java
index 031380e55..9b21432e7 100644
--- a/java/src/main/java/monasca/api/infrastructure/persistence/influxdb/InfluxV9Utils.java
+++ b/java/src/main/java/monasca/api/infrastructure/persistence/influxdb/InfluxV9Utils.java
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ package monasca.api.infrastructure.persistence.influxdb;
 
 import com.google.inject.Inject;
 
+import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
 import org.joda.time.DateTime;
 import org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat;
 
@@ -258,4 +259,17 @@ public class InfluxV9Utils {
 
     return filteredMap;
   }
+
+  public String threeDigitMillisTimestamp(String origTimestamp) {
+    final int length = origTimestamp.length();
+    final String timestamp;
+    if (length == 20) {
+      timestamp = origTimestamp.substring(0, 19) + ".000Z";
+    } else {
+      final String millisecond = origTimestamp.substring(20, length - 1);
+      final String millisecond_3d = StringUtils.rightPad(millisecond, 3, '0');
+      timestamp = origTimestamp.substring(0, 19) + '.' + millisecond_3d + 'Z';
+    }
+    return timestamp;
+  }
 }