diff --git a/megatron/training/arguments.py b/megatron/training/arguments.py
index 51f1c794..e8bb3c63 100644
--- a/megatron/training/arguments.py
+++ b/megatron/training/arguments.py
@@ -1690,5 +1690,8 @@ def _add_experimental_args(parser):
                        help = 'Config file to add additional arguments')
     group.add_argument('--force-stop-iter', type=int, default=None,
                        help="Stop training process at this iteration regardless of any other configs.")
+    group.add_argument('--save-iter-patterns', type=str, default=None, nargs='*',
+                       help='List of regex patterns of step numbers (non-0-padding integer) to save checkpoint. '
+                       'E.g., "123.." will save all checkpoints between 12300 and 12399.')
 
     return parser
diff --git a/megatron/training/training.py b/megatron/training/training.py
index 1fe791cf..fa8372dc 100644
--- a/megatron/training/training.py
+++ b/megatron/training/training.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import math
 import logging
 import os
+import re
 import sys
 from .log_handler import CustomHandler
 # Make default logging level INFO, but filter out all log messages not from MCore.
@@ -205,6 +206,16 @@ def is_save_iteration(iteration: int) -> bool:
     Returns:
         True if we should save checkpoint, False otherwise.
     """
+    args = get_args()
+
+    if args.save_iter_patterns is not None:
+        save_iter_patterns = [re.compile(p) for p in args.save_iter_patterns]
+        iter_str = str(iteration)
+        for p in save_iter_patterns:
+            if p.fullmatch(iter_str):
+                return True
+
+
     if iteration < 10:
         # 0, 1, ..., 9
         return True