diff --git a/cmd/neofs-node/config.go b/cmd/neofs-node/config.go
index d6bb11774c..c95ed37522 100644
--- a/cmd/neofs-node/config.go
+++ b/cmd/neofs-node/config.go
@@ -331,6 +331,7 @@ func initLocalStorage(c *cfg) {
 	engineOpts := []engine.Option{
 		engine.WithLogger(c.log),
 		engine.WithShardPoolSize(engineconfig.ShardPoolSize(c.appCfg)),
+		engine.WithErrorThreshold(engineconfig.ShardErrorThreshold(c.appCfg)),
 	}
 	if c.metricsCollector != nil {
 		engineOpts = append(engineOpts, engine.WithMetrics(c.metricsCollector))
diff --git a/cmd/neofs-node/config/engine/config.go b/cmd/neofs-node/config/engine/config.go
index 2dd03a7b34..15cf14dd42 100644
--- a/cmd/neofs-node/config/engine/config.go
+++ b/cmd/neofs-node/config/engine/config.go
@@ -58,3 +58,10 @@ func ShardPoolSize(c *config.Config) uint32 {
 
 	return ShardPoolSizeDefault
 }
+
+// ShardErrorThreshold returns value of "shard_ro_error_threshold" config parameter from "storage" section.
+//
+// Returns 0 if the value is missing.
+func ShardErrorThreshold(c *config.Config) uint32 {
+	return config.Uint32Safe(c.Sub(subsection), "shard_ro_error_threshold")
+}
diff --git a/cmd/neofs-node/config/engine/config_test.go b/cmd/neofs-node/config/engine/config_test.go
index 3f95de485e..9e7aef07b1 100644
--- a/cmd/neofs-node/config/engine/config_test.go
+++ b/cmd/neofs-node/config/engine/config_test.go
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ func TestEngineSection(t *testing.T) {
 
 		require.False(t, handlerCalled)
 
+		require.EqualValues(t, 0, engineconfig.ShardErrorThreshold(empty))
 		require.EqualValues(t, engineconfig.ShardPoolSizeDefault, engineconfig.ShardPoolSize(empty))
 		require.EqualValues(t, shard.ModeReadWrite, shardconfig.From(empty).Mode())
 	})
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ func TestEngineSection(t *testing.T) {
 	var fileConfigTest = func(c *config.Config) {
 		num := 0
 
+		require.EqualValues(t, 100, engineconfig.ShardErrorThreshold(c))
 		require.EqualValues(t, 15, engineconfig.ShardPoolSize(c))
 
 		engineconfig.IterateShards(c, true, func(sc *shardconfig.Config) {
diff --git a/config/example/node.env b/config/example/node.env
index 110b4c8636..6eb0b10350 100644
--- a/config/example/node.env
+++ b/config/example/node.env
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ NEOFS_OBJECT_PUT_POOL_SIZE_REMOTE=100
 # Storage engine section
 NEOFS_STORAGE_SHARD_POOL_SIZE=15
 NEOFS_STORAGE_SHARD_NUM=2
+NEOFS_STORAGE_SHARD_RO_ERROR_THRESHOLD=100
 ## 0 shard
 ### Flag to refill Metabase from BlobStor
 NEOFS_STORAGE_SHARD_0_RESYNC_METABASE=false
diff --git a/config/example/node.json b/config/example/node.json
index 10537c1ae1..4a49cddd95 100644
--- a/config/example/node.json
+++ b/config/example/node.json
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@
   "storage": {
     "shard_pool_size": 15,
     "shard_num": 2,
+    "shard_ro_error_threshold": 100,
     "shard": {
       "0": {
         "mode": "read-only",
diff --git a/config/example/node.yaml b/config/example/node.yaml
index 7dda3d5c68..48820481df 100644
--- a/config/example/node.yaml
+++ b/config/example/node.yaml
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ storage:
   # note: shard configuration can be omitted for relay node (see `node.relay`)
   shard_pool_size: 15 # size of per-shard worker pools used for PUT operations
   shard_num: 2  # total number of shards
+  shard_ro_error_threshold: 100 # amount of errors to occur before shard is made read-only (default: 0, ignore errors)
   default: # section with the default shard parameters
     resync_metabase: true  # sync metabase with blobstor on start, expensive, leave false until complete understanding