diff --git a/lib/fluent/plugin/in_tail.rb b/lib/fluent/plugin/in_tail.rb
index 8185df0f5e..68374d608b 100644
--- a/lib/fluent/plugin/in_tail.rb
+++ b/lib/fluent/plugin/in_tail.rb
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ def configure(conf)
         @path_formatters = @paths.map{|path| [path, Fluent::Timezone.formatter(@path_timezone, path)]}.to_h
         @exclude_path_formatters = @exclude_path.map{|path| [path, Fluent::Timezone.formatter(@path_timezone, path)]}.to_h
       end
+      check_dir_permission unless Fluent.windows?
 
       # TODO: Use plugin_root_dir and storage plugin to store positions if available
       if @pos_file
@@ -212,6 +213,20 @@ def configure(conf)
       @metrics = MetricsInfo.new(opened_file_metrics, closed_file_metrics, rotated_file_metrics, throttling_metrics)
     end
 
+    def check_dir_permission
+      expand_paths_raw.select { |path|
+        not File.exist?(path)
+      }.each { |path|
+        inaccessible_dir = Pathname.new(File.expand_path(path))
+          .ascend
+          .reverse_each
+          .find { |p| p.directory? && !p.executable? }
+        if inaccessible_dir
+          log.warn "Skip #{path} because '#{inaccessible_dir}' lacks execute permission."
+        end
+      }
+    end
+
     def configure_tag
       if @tag.index('*')
         @tag_prefix, @tag_suffix = @tag.split('*')
@@ -321,7 +336,7 @@ def use_glob?(path)
       end
     end
 
-    def expand_paths
+    def expand_paths_raw
       date = Fluent::EventTime.now
       paths = []
       @paths.each { |path|
@@ -367,10 +382,14 @@ def expand_paths
                end
         use_glob?(path) ? Dir.glob(path) : path
       }.flatten.uniq
+      paths - excluded
+    end
+
+    def expand_paths
       # filter out non existing files, so in case pattern is without '*' we don't do unnecessary work
       hash = {}
-      (paths - excluded).select { |path|
-        FileTest.exist?(path)
+      expand_paths_raw.select { |path|
+        File.exist?(path)
       }.each { |path|
         # Even we just checked for existence, there is a race condition here as
         # of which stat() might fail with ENOENT. See #3224.
diff --git a/test/plugin/test_in_tail.rb b/test/plugin/test_in_tail.rb
index 7b1405999a..0ce47bf023 100644
--- a/test/plugin/test_in_tail.rb
+++ b/test/plugin/test_in_tail.rb
@@ -2591,6 +2591,46 @@ def test_EACCES
     d.instance_shutdown if d && d.instance
   end
 
+  def test_warn_without_directory_permission
+    omit "Cannot test with root user" if Process::UID.eid == 0
+    omit "NTFS doesn't support UNIX like permissions" if Fluent.windows?
+    path = "#{@tmp_dir}/noaccess/tail.txt"
+    begin
+      FileUtils.mkdir_p("#{@tmp_dir}/noaccess")
+      FileUtils.touch(path)
+      FileUtils.chmod(0400, path)
+      FileUtils.chmod(0600, "#{@tmp_dir}/noaccess")
+      config = config_element('', '', {
+                                'tag' => "tail",
+                                'path' => path,
+                                'format' => 'none',
+                                "pos_file" => "#{@tmp_dir}/tail.pos",
+                              })
+      d = create_driver(config, false)
+      fname = File.expand_path("#{@tmp_dir}/noaccess")
+      assert(d.logs.any?{|log| log.include?("Skip #{path} because '#{fname}' lacks execute permission.\n") })
+    end
+  end
+
+  def test_no_warn_with_directory_permission
+    omit "Cannot test with root user" if Process::UID.eid == 0
+    omit "NTFS doesn't support UNIX like permissions" if Fluent.windows?
+    path = "#{@tmp_dir}/noaccess/tail.txt"
+    begin
+      FileUtils.mkdir_p("#{@tmp_dir}/noaccess")
+      FileUtils.chmod(0100, "#{@tmp_dir}/noaccess")
+      config = config_element('', '', {
+                                'tag' => "tail",
+                                'path' => path,
+                                'format' => 'none',
+                                "pos_file" => "#{@tmp_dir}/tail.pos",
+                              })
+      d = create_driver(config, false)
+      fname = File.expand_path("#{@tmp_dir}/noaccess")
+      assert(d.logs.all?{|log| !log.include?("Skip #{path} because '#{fname}' lacks execute permission.\n") })
+    end
+  end
+
   def test_shutdown_timeout
     Fluent::FileWrapper.open("#{@tmp_dir}/tail.txt", "wb") do |f|
       # Should be large enough to take too long time to consume