diff --git a/.gometalinter.json b/.gometalinter.json
index 90ac0015e90..f19055ec59e 100644
--- a/.gometalinter.json
+++ b/.gometalinter.json
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   "Enable": [
     "gofmt",
     "misspell",
+    "staticcheck",
     "structcheck",
     "unconvert",
     "varcheck",
diff --git a/staticcheck.conf b/staticcheck.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0f68e9b1154
--- /dev/null
+++ b/staticcheck.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+checks = ["all", "-SA4006"]
+initialisms = ["ACL", "API", "ASCII", "CPU", "CSS", "DNS",
+	"EOF", "GUID", "HTML", "HTTP", "HTTPS", "ID",
+	"IP", "JSON", "QPS", "RAM", "RPC", "SLA",
+	"SMTP", "SQL", "SSH", "TCP", "TLS", "TTL",
+	"UDP", "UI", "GID", "UID", "UUID", "URI",
+	"URL", "UTF8", "VM", "XML", "XMPP", "XSRF",
+	"XSS"]
+dot_import_whitelist = []
+http_status_code_whitelist = ["200", "400", "404", "500"]
+