diff --git a/tempest/api/compute/admin/test_instance_usage_audit_log.py b/tempest/api/compute/admin/test_instance_usage_audit_log.py
index 189c316e5..6976783e9 100644
--- a/tempest/api/compute/admin/test_instance_usage_audit_log.py
+++ b/tempest/api/compute/admin/test_instance_usage_audit_log.py
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ class InstanceUsageAuditLogTestJSON(base.BaseV2ComputeAdminTest):
     @test.idempotent_id('25319919-33d9-424f-9f99-2c203ee48b9d')
     def test_list_instance_usage_audit_logs(self):
         # list instance usage audit logs
-        body = self.adm_client.list_instance_usage_audit_logs()
+        body = (self.adm_client.list_instance_usage_audit_logs()
+                ["instance_usage_audit_logs"])
         expected_items = ['total_errors', 'total_instances', 'log',
                           'num_hosts_running', 'num_hosts_done',
                           'num_hosts', 'hosts_not_run', 'overall_status',
@@ -44,8 +45,9 @@ class InstanceUsageAuditLogTestJSON(base.BaseV2ComputeAdminTest):
     def test_get_instance_usage_audit_log(self):
         # Get instance usage audit log before specified time
         now = datetime.datetime.now()
-        body = self.adm_client.show_instance_usage_audit_log(
+        body = (self.adm_client.show_instance_usage_audit_log(
             urllib.quote(now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")))
+            ["instance_usage_audit_log"])
 
         expected_items = ['total_errors', 'total_instances', 'log',
                           'num_hosts_running', 'num_hosts_done', 'num_hosts',
diff --git a/tempest/services/compute/json/instance_usage_audit_log_client.py b/tempest/services/compute/json/instance_usage_audit_log_client.py
index f06a67592..4d9625ea0 100644
--- a/tempest/services/compute/json/instance_usage_audit_log_client.py
+++ b/tempest/services/compute/json/instance_usage_audit_log_client.py
@@ -28,13 +28,11 @@ class InstanceUsagesAuditLogClient(service_client.ServiceClient):
         body = json.loads(body)
         self.validate_response(schema.list_instance_usage_audit_log,
                                resp, body)
-        return service_client.ResponseBody(resp,
-                                           body["instance_usage_audit_logs"])
+        return service_client.ResponseBody(resp, body)
 
     def show_instance_usage_audit_log(self, time_before):
         url = 'os-instance_usage_audit_log/%s' % time_before
         resp, body = self.get(url)
         body = json.loads(body)
         self.validate_response(schema.get_instance_usage_audit_log, resp, body)
-        return service_client.ResponseBody(resp,
-                                           body["instance_usage_audit_log"])
+        return service_client.ResponseBody(resp, body)