diff --git a/pkg/scyllaclient/client_scylla.go b/pkg/scyllaclient/client_scylla.go
index 02ea0e0486..7f40b1bbe4 100644
--- a/pkg/scyllaclient/client_scylla.go
+++ b/pkg/scyllaclient/client_scylla.go
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import (
 	"sort"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
+	"sync"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2"
@@ -634,40 +635,135 @@ const (
 	IncrementalModeDisabled IncrementalMode = "disabled"
 )
 
-// TabletRepair schedules Scylla repair tablet table task and returns its ID.
-// All tablets will be repaired with just a single task. It repairs all hosts
-// by default, but it's possible to filter them by DC or host ID.
-// Master is optional, as we can query any node for table repair task status.
-func (c *Client) TabletRepair(ctx context.Context, keyspace, table, master string, dcs, hostIDs []string, incrementalMode IncrementalMode) (string, error) {
-	const allTablets = "all"
-	dontAwaitCompletion := "false"
+// TabletRepairParams specifies optional parameters of tablet repair task.
+type TabletRepairParams struct {
+	DCs         []string
+	HostIDs     []string
+	Incremental IncrementalMode
+	// LongPollingSeconds specifies intervals in which Callback is
+	// called with current task progress. Zero results in calling
+	// Callback only after task is finished.
+	LongPollingSeconds int64
+	// Callback allowing to track task progress while it is running.
+	// When detailed progress is not available, Callback might
+	// be called with current and total set to 0.
+	Callback func(status ScyllaTaskState, current, total int64)
+}
+
+// TabletRepair schedules tablet repair task and waits for it to finish.
+// See TabletRepairParams for optional parameters.
+func (c *Client) TabletRepair(ctx context.Context, ks, tab string, params TabletRepairParams) error {
+	const repairEntireTable = "all"
 	ctx = withShouldRetryHandler(ctx, tabletRepairShouldRetryHandler)
-	if master != "" {
-		ctx = forceHost(ctx, master)
-	}
 	p := operations.StorageServiceTabletsRepairPostParams{
-		Context:         ctx,
-		Ks:              keyspace,
-		Table:           table,
-		Tokens:          allTablets,
-		AwaitCompletion: &dontAwaitCompletion,
-	}
-	if len(dcs) > 0 {
-		merged := strings.Join(dcs, ",")
+		Context: ctx,
+		Ks:      ks,
+		Table:   tab,
+		Tokens:  repairEntireTable,
+	}
+	if len(params.DCs) > 0 {
+		merged := strings.Join(params.DCs, ",")
 		p.SetDcsFilter(&merged)
 	}
-	if len(hostIDs) > 0 {
-		merged := strings.Join(hostIDs, ",")
+	if len(params.HostIDs) > 0 {
+		merged := strings.Join(params.HostIDs, ",")
 		p.SetHostsFilter(&merged)
 	}
-	if incrementalMode != "" {
-		p.SetIncrementalMode(&incrementalMode)
+	if params.Incremental != "" {
+		p.SetIncrementalMode(&params.Incremental)
 	}
+
+	// Start by scheduling async tablet repair task
+	// and getting its ID.
+	p.AwaitCompletion = pointer.StringPtr("false")
 	resp, err := c.scyllaOps.StorageServiceTabletsRepairPost(&p)
 	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
+		return errors.Wrap(err, "schedule async tablet repair")
+	}
+	taskID := resp.GetPayload().TabletTaskID
+
+	// Spawn goroutine responsible for calling callback
+	// with current task progress. It's not needed when
+	// either long polling or callback are not set.
+	// It's also not needed to record errors from such
+	// goroutine, as the final error will come from
+	// the synchronous wait below. Goroutine exists
+	// on error, task finish, or context cancellation.
+	progressCtx, progressCtxCancel := context.WithCancel(ctx)
+	wg := sync.WaitGroup{}
+	if params.LongPollingSeconds > 0 && params.Callback != nil {
+		wg.Go(func() {
+			for {
+				taskStatus, err := c.ScyllaWaitTask(progressCtx, "", taskID, params.LongPollingSeconds)
+				if err != nil {
+					return
+				}
+				// It's safe to cast progress to int64,
+				// as it is representing tablet count.
+				params.Callback(
+					ScyllaTaskState(taskStatus.State),
+					int64(taskStatus.ProgressCompleted),
+					int64(taskStatus.ProgressTotal),
+				)
+				if ScyllaTaskState(taskStatus.State) == ScyllaTaskStateDone ||
+					ScyllaTaskState(taskStatus.State) == ScyllaTaskStateFailed {
+					return
+				}
+			}
+		})
 	}
-	return resp.GetPayload().TabletTaskID, nil
+
+	// Synchronously wait for task to finish.
+	// Information about tablet repair task progress is not kept on
+	// scylla side after task if finished. That's why we need synchronous
+	// waiting alongside long polling, so that we avoid scenario where
+	// tablet repair task finished in between long polling calls and
+	// the next one returns HTTP 404 error claiming that tablet repair
+	// task with given ID does not exist. Status returned from such call
+	// is also the final status on which callback is called.
+	taskStatus, err := c.ScyllaWaitTask(ctx, "", taskID, 0)
+	// Make sure that progress goroutine returns before proceeding
+	progressCtxCancel()
+	wg.Wait()
+
+	if err != nil {
+		// Even with synchronous waiting, it's still possible for the same
+		// problem to occur, if tablet repair task finishes before we start
+		// waiting synchronously for it. In such case, we can retry tablet
+		// repair by synchronously waiting on the call for scheduling tablet
+		// repair task. We prefer not to do it, as in this case, we don't
+		// get tablet task ID and can't track its progress while it's running,
+		// but it's better than failing the whole repair. Also, this problem
+		// usually occurs for empty/small tables, so this retry shouldn't take
+		// much time.
+		if httpStatus, _ := StatusCodeAndMessageOf(err); httpStatus != http.StatusNotFound {
+			return errors.Wrap(err, "sync wait for tablet repair task")
+		}
+		p.AwaitCompletion = pointer.StringPtr("true")
+		_, err = c.scyllaOps.StorageServiceTabletsRepairPost(&p)
+		if err != nil {
+			return errors.Wrap(err, "schedule sync tablet repair")
+		}
+		// We don't have progress information because of the synchronous waiting
+		// on tablet repair schedule, so we can just report status done.
+		if params.Callback != nil {
+			params.Callback(ScyllaTaskStateDone, 0, 0)
+		}
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	// Final callback on progress obtained from synchronous waiting
+	if params.Callback != nil {
+		params.Callback(
+			ScyllaTaskState(taskStatus.State),
+			int64(taskStatus.ProgressCompleted),
+			int64(taskStatus.ProgressTotal),
+		)
+	}
+	if ScyllaTaskState(taskStatus.State) != ScyllaTaskStateDone {
+		return errors.Errorf("tablet repair task finished with state %q", ScyllaTaskStateFailed)
+	}
+	return nil
 }
 
 // Regex of schedule colocated table repair error. Taken from:
diff --git a/pkg/service/repair/tablet/service_integration_test.go b/pkg/service/repair/tablet/service_integration_test.go
index da4efa8739..be423c935c 100644
--- a/pkg/service/repair/tablet/service_integration_test.go
+++ b/pkg/service/repair/tablet/service_integration_test.go
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ func TestTabletRepairIntegration(t *testing.T) {
 		h.Hrt.SetInterceptor(nil)
 		// Start lots of scylla tablet repair tasks
 		for ft := range allTables {
-			_, _ = h.Client.TabletRepair(testCtx, ft.ks, ft.tab, "", nil, nil, scyllaclient.IncrementalModeDisabled)
+			_ = h.Client.TabletRepair(testCtx, ft.ks, ft.tab, scyllaclient.TabletRepairParams{})
 		}
 		// Make sure that they are visible on all nodes
 		for _, host := range ManagedClusterHosts() {
diff --git a/pkg/service/repair/tablet/worker.go b/pkg/service/repair/tablet/worker.go
index 6e425f4fc7..93c2afcb26 100644
--- a/pkg/service/repair/tablet/worker.go
+++ b/pkg/service/repair/tablet/worker.go
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ func (w *worker) repairTable(ctx context.Context, client *scyllaclient.Client, k
 	}(start)
 
 	// Use scylla side default incremental mode (#4683)
-	id, err := client.TabletRepair(ctx, ks, tab, "", nil, nil, "")
+	err = client.TabletRepair(ctx, ks, tab, scyllaclient.TabletRepairParams{})
 	if err != nil {
 		if _, _, ok := scyllaclient.IsColocatedTableErr(err); ok {
 			// Since we always repair all tablet tables,
@@ -119,25 +119,9 @@ func (w *worker) repairTable(ctx context.Context, client *scyllaclient.Client, k
 			w.logger.Info(ctx, "Skipping repair of colocated tablet table", "keyspace", ks, "table", tab, "error", err)
 			return nil
 		}
-		return errors.Wrapf(err, "schedule tablet repair")
-	}
-
-	w.logger.Info(ctx, "Scheduled tablet repair", "keyspace", ks, "table", tab, "task ID", id)
-	w.upsertTableProgress(ctx, pr)
-
-	status, err := client.ScyllaWaitTask(ctx, "", id, 0)
-	if err != nil {
-		w.abortRepairTask(context.Background(), id)
-		return errors.Wrap(err, "get tablet repair task status")
-	}
-	switch scyllaclient.ScyllaTaskState(status.State) {
-	case scyllaclient.ScyllaTaskStateDone:
-		return nil
-	case scyllaclient.ScyllaTaskStateFailed:
-		return errors.Errorf("tablet repair task finished with status %q", scyllaclient.ScyllaTaskStateFailed)
-	default:
-		return errors.Errorf("unexpected tablet repair task status %q", status.State)
+		return errors.Wrapf(err, "tablet repair")
 	}
+	return nil
 }
 
 func (w *worker) abortRepairTask(ctx context.Context, id string) {
diff --git a/pkg/service/repair/worker.go b/pkg/service/repair/worker.go
index 5a8d561038..05d60b5a7e 100644
--- a/pkg/service/repair/worker.go
+++ b/pkg/service/repair/worker.go
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ func (w *worker) runRepair(ctx context.Context, j job) (out error) {
 	var ranges []scyllaclient.TokenRange
 	switch j.jobType {
 	case tabletJobType:
-		return w.fullTabletTableRepair(ctx, j.keyspace, j.table, j.master.String())
+		return w.fullTabletTableRepair(ctx, j.keyspace, j.table)
 	case smallTableJobType:
 		ranges = nil
 	case mergeRangesJobType:
@@ -170,17 +170,25 @@ func (w *worker) isTableDeleted(ctx context.Context, j job) bool {
 	return !exists
 }
 
-func (w *worker) fullTabletTableRepair(ctx context.Context, keyspace, table, host string) error {
+func (w *worker) fullTabletTableRepair(ctx context.Context, keyspace, table string) error {
 	hostFilter, err := w.hostFilter(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
 		return errors.Wrap(err, "create host filter")
 	}
 
-	var incrementalMode string
+	w.logger.Info(ctx, "Repairing entire tablet table",
+		"keyspace", keyspace,
+		"table", table,
+	)
+
+	p := scyllaclient.TabletRepairParams{
+		DCs:     w.target.DC,
+		HostIDs: hostFilter,
+	}
 	if w.apiSupport.incrementalRepair {
-		incrementalMode = w.target.IncrementalMode
+		p.Incremental = w.target.IncrementalMode
 	}
-	id, err := w.client.TabletRepair(ctx, keyspace, table, host, w.target.DC, hostFilter, incrementalMode)
+	err = w.client.TabletRepair(ctx, keyspace, table, p)
 	if err != nil {
 		convertedErr := w.convertColocatedTableRepairErr(err)
 		if convertedErr == nil {
@@ -192,28 +200,7 @@ func (w *worker) fullTabletTableRepair(ctx context.Context, keyspace, table, hos
 		}
 		return errors.Wrap(convertedErr, "schedule tablet repair task")
 	}
-
-	w.logger.Info(ctx, "Repairing entire tablet table",
-		"keyspace", keyspace,
-		"table", table,
-		"task ID", id,
-	)
-
-	status, err := w.client.ScyllaWaitTask(ctx, host, id, 0)
-	if err != nil {
-		w.scyllaAbortTask(host, id)
-		return errors.Wrap(err, "get tablet repair task status")
-	}
-
-	switch scyllaclient.ScyllaTaskState(status.State) {
-	case scyllaclient.ScyllaTaskStateDone:
-		return nil
-	case scyllaclient.ScyllaTaskStateFailed:
-		return errors.Errorf("tablet repair task finished with status %q", scyllaclient.ScyllaTaskStateFailed)
-	default:
-		w.scyllaAbortTask(host, id)
-		return errors.Errorf("unexpected tablet repair task status %q", status.State)
-	}
+	return nil
 }
 
 func (w *worker) hostFilter(ctx context.Context) ([]string, error) {
@@ -251,6 +238,7 @@ func (w *worker) convertColocatedTableRepairErr(scheduleTabletRepairErr error) e
 	return errors.Wrap(scheduleTabletRepairErr, "base table is not repaired, use --keyspace flag to either include it or exclude its colocated tables")
 }
 
+// TODO: abort ongoing tablet repair tasks on start but only for planned tables
 func (w *worker) scyllaAbortTask(host, id string) {
 	if err := w.client.ScyllaAbortTask(context.Background(), host, id); err != nil {
 		w.logger.Error(context.Background(), "Failed to abort task",