diff --git a/tests/ci/Makefile b/tests/ci/Makefile
--- a/tests/ci/Makefile
+++ b/tests/ci/Makefile
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
 CIIMAGE=	ci-${OSRELEASE}-${GITREV}-${KERNCONF}.${FORMAT}
 CIDISK?=	${.OBJDIR}/${CIIMAGE}
 VMSIZE?=	6g
+KYUA_TEST_FILTERS?=
 CITYPE?=	full
 META_TAR!=mktemp /tmp/meta.XXXXXX
 META_DIR!=mktemp -d /tmp/meta.XXXXXX
diff --git a/tests/ci/tools/ci.conf b/tests/ci/tools/ci.conf
--- a/tests/ci/tools/ci.conf
+++ b/tests/ci/tools/ci.conf
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@
 	cron_enable="NO" \
 	syslogd_enable="NO" \
 	newsyslog_enable="NO" \
-	freebsdci_type="${CITYPE}"
+	freebsdci_type="${CITYPE}" \
+	freebsdci_test_filters="${KYUA_TEST_FILTERS}"
 cat << EOF >> ${DESTDIR}/etc/sysctl.conf
 kern.cryptodevallowsoft=1
 kern.ipc.tls.enable=1
diff --git a/tests/ci/tools/freebsdci b/tests/ci/tools/freebsdci
--- a/tests/ci/tools/freebsdci
+++ b/tests/ci/tools/freebsdci
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 load_rc_config $name
 : ${freebsdci_enable:="NO"}
 : ${freebsdci_type:="full"}
+: ${freebsdci_test_filters:=""}
 PATH="${PATH}:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin"
 
 auto_shutdown()
@@ -77,7 +78,9 @@
 		tar xvf ${tardev} -C ${metadir}
 		cd /usr/tests
 		set +e
-		kyua -v parallelism=${parallelism} test
+		kyua \
+			-v parallelism=${parallelism} \
+			test ${freebsdci_test_filters}
 		rc=$?
 		set -e
 		if [ ${rc} -ne 0 ] && [ ${rc} -ne 1 ]; then