diff --git a/src/cluster_legacy.c b/src/cluster_legacy.c
index 035b9fc876..82afea0ba8 100644
--- a/src/cluster_legacy.c
+++ b/src/cluster_legacy.c
@@ -1842,14 +1842,14 @@ void clusterHandleConfigEpochCollision(clusterNode *sender) {
  *
  * The nodes blacklist is just a way to ensure that a given node with a given
  * Node ID is not re-added before some time elapsed (this time is specified
- * in seconds in CLUSTER_BLACKLIST_TTL).
+ * in seconds by the configurable cluster-blacklist-ttl).
  *
  * This is useful when we want to remove a node from the cluster completely:
  * when CLUSTER FORGET is called, it also puts the node into the blacklist so
  * that even if we receive gossip messages from other nodes that still remember
  * about the node we want to remove, we don't re-add it before some time.
  *
- * Currently the CLUSTER_BLACKLIST_TTL is set to 1 minute, this means
+ * The default blacklist ttl is 1 minute which means
  * that valkey-cli has 60 seconds to send CLUSTER FORGET messages to nodes
  * in the cluster without dealing with the problem of other nodes re-adding
  * back the node to nodes we already sent the FORGET command to.
@@ -1859,9 +1859,6 @@ void clusterHandleConfigEpochCollision(clusterNode *sender) {
  * value.
  * -------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
 
-#define CLUSTER_BLACKLIST_TTL 60 /* 1 minute. */
-
-
 /* Before of the addNode() or Exists() operations we always remove expired
  * entries from the black list. This is an O(N) operation but it is not a
  * problem since add / exists operations are called very infrequently and
@@ -1893,7 +1890,7 @@ void clusterBlacklistAddNode(clusterNode *node) {
         id = sdsdup(id);
     }
     de = dictFind(server.cluster->nodes_black_list, id);
-    dictSetUnsignedIntegerVal(de, time(NULL) + CLUSTER_BLACKLIST_TTL);
+    dictSetUnsignedIntegerVal(de, time(NULL) + server.cluster_blacklist_ttl);
     sdsfree(id);
 }
 
diff --git a/src/config.c b/src/config.c
index 3c82f9ee7a..ea733c099b 100644
--- a/src/config.c
+++ b/src/config.c
@@ -3211,6 +3211,7 @@ standardConfig static_configs[] = {
     createULongConfig("active-defrag-max-scan-fields", NULL, MODIFIABLE_CONFIG, 1, LONG_MAX, server.active_defrag_max_scan_fields, 1000, INTEGER_CONFIG, NULL, NULL), /* Default: keys with more than 1000 fields will be processed separately */
     createULongConfig("slowlog-max-len", NULL, MODIFIABLE_CONFIG, 0, LONG_MAX, server.slowlog_max_len, 128, INTEGER_CONFIG, NULL, NULL),
     createULongConfig("acllog-max-len", NULL, MODIFIABLE_CONFIG, 0, LONG_MAX, server.acllog_max_len, 128, INTEGER_CONFIG, NULL, NULL),
+    createULongConfig("cluster-blacklist-ttl", NULL, MODIFIABLE_CONFIG, 0, ULONG_MAX, server.cluster_blacklist_ttl, 60, INTEGER_CONFIG, NULL, NULL),
 
     /* Long Long configs */
     createLongLongConfig("busy-reply-threshold", "lua-time-limit", MODIFIABLE_CONFIG, 0, LONG_MAX, server.busy_reply_threshold, 5000, INTEGER_CONFIG, NULL, NULL), /* milliseconds */
diff --git a/src/server.h b/src/server.h
index 66d6d66da5..0575cdbae5 100644
--- a/src/server.h
+++ b/src/server.h
@@ -2079,6 +2079,8 @@ struct valkeyServer {
     unsigned long long cluster_link_msg_queue_limit_bytes; /* Memory usage limit on individual link msg queue */
     int cluster_drop_packet_filter;                        /* Debug config that allows tactically
                                                             * dropping packets of a specific type */
+    unsigned long cluster_blacklist_ttl;                   /* Duration in seconds that a node is denied re-entry into
+                                                            * the cluster after it is forgotten with CLUSTER FORGET. */
     /* Debug config that goes along with cluster_drop_packet_filter. When set, the link is closed on packet drop. */
     uint32_t debug_cluster_close_link_on_packet_drop : 1;
     sds cached_cluster_slot_info[CACHE_CONN_TYPE_MAX]; /* Index in array is a bitwise or of CACHE_CONN_TYPE_* */
diff --git a/valkey.conf b/valkey.conf
index 39820e30ec..f26a19b3da 100644
--- a/valkey.conf
+++ b/valkey.conf
@@ -1760,6 +1760,16 @@ aof-timestamp-enabled no
 #
 # cluster-preferred-endpoint-type ip
 
+# The cluster blacklist is used when removing a node from the cluster completely. 
+# When CLUSTER FORGET is called for a node, that node is put into the blacklist for
+# some time so that when gossip messages are received from other nodes that still
+# remember it, it is not re-added. This gives time for CLUSTER FORGET to be sent to
+# every node in the cluster. The blacklist TTL is 60 seconds by default, which should
+# be sufficient for most clusters, but you may considering increasing this if you see
+# nodes getting re-added while using CLUSTER FORGET.
+#
+# cluster-blacklist-ttl 60
+
 # In order to setup your cluster make sure to read the documentation
 # available at https://valkey.io web site.
 
@@ -2321,4 +2331,4 @@ jemalloc-bg-thread yes
 # this is only exposed via the info command for clients to use, but in the future we
 # we may also use this when making decisions for replication.
 #
-# availability-zone "zone-name"
\ No newline at end of file
+# availability-zone "zone-name"