diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 715d17331..71c8ea6f8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ format a TICKscript file according to a common standard.
 - [#387](https://github.com/influxdata/kapacitor/issues/387): Add `.quiet()` option to EvalNode so errors can be suppressed if expected.
 - [#400](https://github.com/influxdata/kapacitor/issues/400): All query/connection errors are counted and reported in BatchNode stats.
 - [#412](https://github.com/influxdata/kapacitor/pull/412): Fix issues with batch queries dropping points because of nil fields.
+- [#413](https://github.com/influxdata/kapacitor/pull/413): Allow disambiguation between ".groupBy" and "|groupBy".
 
 
 ## v0.11.0 [2016-03-22]
diff --git a/integrations/batcher_test.go b/integrations/batcher_test.go
index 40710750e..45b4cf581 100644
--- a/integrations/batcher_test.go
+++ b/integrations/batcher_test.go
@@ -252,6 +252,39 @@ batch
 	testBatcherWithOutput(t, "TestBatch_SimpleMR", script, 30*time.Second, er)
 }
 
+func TestBatch_DoubleGroupBy(t *testing.T) {
+
+	var script = `
+batch
+	|query('''
+		SELECT mean("value")
+		FROM "telegraf"."default".cpu_usage_idle
+		WHERE "host" = 'serverA' AND "cpu" != 'cpu-total'
+''')
+		.period(10s)
+		.every(10s)
+		.groupBy(time(2s), 'cpu')
+	|groupBy()
+	|max('mean')
+	|httpOut('TestBatch_SimpleMR')
+`
+
+	er := kapacitor.Result{
+		Series: imodels.Rows{
+			{
+				Name:    "cpu_usage_idle",
+				Columns: []string{"time", "max"},
+				Values: [][]interface{}{[]interface{}{
+					time.Date(1971, 1, 1, 0, 0, 18, 0, time.UTC),
+					95.98484848485191,
+				}},
+			},
+		},
+	}
+
+	testBatcherWithOutput(t, "TestBatch_SimpleMR", script, 30*time.Second, er)
+}
+
 func TestBatch_Join(t *testing.T) {
 
 	var script = `
diff --git a/pipeline/alert.go b/pipeline/alert.go
index abdd280ad..85465bcd4 100644
--- a/pipeline/alert.go
+++ b/pipeline/alert.go
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 package pipeline
 
-import (
-	"github.com/influxdata/kapacitor/tick"
-)
+import "github.com/influxdata/kapacitor/tick"
 
 // Number of previous states to remember when computing flapping percentage.
 const defaultFlapHistory = 21
diff --git a/pipeline/batch.go b/pipeline/batch.go
index 15885917d..00ae96410 100644
--- a/pipeline/batch.go
+++ b/pipeline/batch.go
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ package pipeline
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/kapacitor/tick"
 )
 
 // A node that handles creating several child BatchNodes.
@@ -72,6 +74,9 @@ func (b *SourceBatchNode) dot(buf *bytes.Buffer) {
 type BatchNode struct {
 	chainnode
 
+	// self describer
+	describer *tick.ReflectionDescriber
+
 	// The query text
 	//tick:ignore
 	QueryStr string
@@ -125,9 +130,11 @@ type BatchNode struct {
 }
 
 func newBatchNode() *BatchNode {
-	return &BatchNode{
+	b := &BatchNode{
 		chainnode: newBasicChainNode("batch", BatchEdge, BatchEdge),
 	}
+	b.describer, _ = tick.NewReflectionDescriber(b)
+	return b
 }
 
 // Group the data by a set of dimensions.
@@ -155,3 +162,41 @@ func (b *BatchNode) Align() *BatchNode {
 	b.AlignFlag = true
 	return b
 }
+
+// Tick Describer methods
+
+//tick:ignore
+func (b *BatchNode) Desc() string {
+	return b.describer.Desc()
+}
+
+//tick:ignore
+func (b *BatchNode) HasChainMethod(name string) bool {
+	if name == "groupBy" {
+		return true
+	}
+	return b.describer.HasChainMethod(name)
+}
+
+//tick:ignore
+func (b *BatchNode) CallChainMethod(name string, args ...interface{}) (interface{}, error) {
+	if name == "groupBy" {
+		return b.chainnode.GroupBy(args...), nil
+	}
+	return b.describer.CallChainMethod(name, args...)
+}
+
+//tick:ignore
+func (b *BatchNode) HasProperty(name string) bool {
+	return b.describer.HasProperty(name)
+}
+
+//tick:ignore
+func (b *BatchNode) Property(name string) interface{} {
+	return b.describer.Property(name)
+}
+
+//tick:ignore
+func (b *BatchNode) SetProperty(name string, args ...interface{}) (interface{}, error) {
+	return b.describer.SetProperty(name, args...)
+}