diff --git a/cloudkitty/storage/v2/elasticsearch/client.py b/cloudkitty/storage/v2/elasticsearch/client.py
index 79651b8c..eca5f1ee 100644
--- a/cloudkitty/storage/v2/elasticsearch/client.py
+++ b/cloudkitty/storage/v2/elasticsearch/client.py
@@ -308,7 +308,14 @@ def retrieve(self, begin, end, filters, metric_types,
 
         scroll_id = resp['_scroll_id']
         self._scroll_ids.add(scroll_id)
-        total = resp['hits']['total']
+        total_hits = resp['hits']['total']
+
+        if isinstance(total_hits, dict):
+            LOG.debug("Total hits [%s] is a dict. Therefore, we only extract "
+                      "the 'value' attribute as the total option.", total_hits)
+            total_hits = total_hits.get("value")
+
+        total = total_hits
         chunk = resp['hits']['hits']
 
         output = chunk[offset:offset+limit if paginate else len(chunk)]
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/fix-response-total-for-elastic-search-a3a9244380ed046f.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/fix-response-total-for-elastic-search-a3a9244380ed046f.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e67fc22f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/fix-response-total-for-elastic-search-a3a9244380ed046f.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+fixes:
+  - |
+    Fix response format ``total`` for v2 dataframes API. The response for v2
+    dataframes is ``{"total": 3}``. However, for Elasticsearch search response,
+    the ``"hits.total"`` in the response body is ``{"value": 3, "relation":
+    "eq"}``, which does not match the API response schema.