diff --git a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/transport/TransportGetFindingsAction.kt b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/transport/TransportGetFindingsAction.kt
index 62d7e83b9..268087f1e 100644
--- a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/transport/TransportGetFindingsAction.kt
+++ b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/transport/TransportGetFindingsAction.kt
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ class TransportGetFindingsSearchAction @Inject constructor(
                     )
                 )
         }
-        searchSourceBuilder.query(queryBuilder)
+        searchSourceBuilder.query(queryBuilder).trackTotalHits(true)
 
         client.threadPool().threadContext.stashContext().use {
             scope.launch {
diff --git a/release-notes/opensearch-alerting.release-notes-2.13.0.0.md b/release-notes/opensearch-alerting.release-notes-2.13.0.0.md
index 7cd3749d6..ab82a4742 100644
--- a/release-notes/opensearch-alerting.release-notes-2.13.0.0.md
+++ b/release-notes/opensearch-alerting.release-notes-2.13.0.0.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Compatible with OpenSearch 2.13.0
 * optimize to fetch only fields relevant to doc level queries in doc level monitor instead of entire _source for each doc #[1441](https://github.com/opensearch-project/alerting/pull/1441)
 * Add jvm aware setting and max num docs settings for batching docs for percolate queries #[1435](https://github.com/opensearch-project/alerting/pull/1435)
 * fix for MapperException[the [enabled] parameter can't be updated for the object mapping [metadata.source_to_query_index_mapping] (#[1432](https://github.com/opensearch-project/alerting/pull/1432)) (#[1434](https://github.com/opensearch-project/alerting/pull/1434))
-
+* adding tracking_total_hits in search query for findings (#[1487](https://github.com/opensearch-project/alerting/pull/1487))
 
 ### Enhancements
 * Enhance per bucket, and per document monitor notification message ctx. (#[1450](https://github.com/opensearch-project/alerting/pull/1450)) (#[1477](https://github.com/opensearch-project/alerting/pull/1477))
@@ -20,4 +20,4 @@ Compatible with OpenSearch 2.13.0
 * add distributed locking to jobs in alerting (#[1403](https://github.com/opensearch-project/alerting/pull/1403)) (#[1458](https://github.com/opensearch-project/alerting/pull/1458))
 
 ### Documentation
-* Added 2.13 release notes (#[1483](https://github.com/opensearch-project/alerting/pull/1483))
\ No newline at end of file
+* Added 2.13 release notes (#[1483](https://github.com/opensearch-project/alerting/pull/1483))