diff --git a/.gitlab/kernel_matrix_testing/common.yml b/.gitlab/kernel_matrix_testing/common.yml
index b2acf5a35d422..83514a525f99c 100644
--- a/.gitlab/kernel_matrix_testing/common.yml
+++ b/.gitlab/kernel_matrix_testing/common.yml
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@
     # ssh into each micro-vm and run initialization script. This script will also run the tests.
     - scp "$DD_AGENT_TESTING_DIR/job_env.txt" "metal_instance:/home/ubuntu/job_env-${ARCH}-${TAG}-${TEST_SET}.txt"
     - ssh metal_instance "scp /home/ubuntu/job_env-${ARCH}-${TAG}-${TEST_SET}.txt ${MICRO_VM_IP}:/job_env.txt"
-    - NESTED_VM_CMD="/home/ubuntu/connector -host ${MICRO_VM_IP} -user root -ssh-file /home/kernel-version-testing/ddvm_rsa -vm-cmd 'CI=true /root/fetch_dependencies.sh ${ARCH} && COLLECT_COMPLEXITY=${COLLECT_COMPLEXITY} /opt/micro-vm-init.sh -test-tools /opt/testing-tools -retry ${RETRY} -test-root /opt/${TEST_COMPONENT}-tests -packages-run-config /opt/${TEST_SET}.json'"
+    - NESTED_VM_CMD="/home/ubuntu/connector -host ${MICRO_VM_IP} -user root -ssh-file /home/kernel-version-testing/ddvm_rsa -vm-cmd 'CI=true /root/fetch_dependencies.sh ${ARCH} && COLLECT_COMPLEXITY=${COLLECT_COMPLEXITY} /opt/micro-vm-init.sh -verbose -test-tools /opt/testing-tools -retry ${RETRY} -test-root /opt/${TEST_COMPONENT}-tests -packages-run-config /opt/${TEST_SET}.json'"
     - $CI_PROJECT_DIR/connector-$ARCH -host $INSTANCE_IP -user ubuntu -ssh-file $AWS_EC2_SSH_KEY_FILE -vm-cmd "${NESTED_VM_CMD}" -send-env-vars DD_API_KEY # Allow DD_API_KEY to be passed to the metal instance, so we can use it to send metrics from the connector.
     - ssh metal_instance "ssh ${MICRO_VM_IP} '/opt/testing-tools/test-json-review -flakes /opt/testing-tools/flakes.yaml -codeowners /opt/testing-tools/CODEOWNERS -test-root /opt/${TEST_COMPONENT}-tests'"
     - '[ ! -f $CI_PROJECT_DIR/daemon-${ARCH}.log ] && scp metal_instance:/home/ubuntu/daemon.log $CI_PROJECT_DIR/vm-metrics-daemon-${ARCH}.log'
diff --git a/test/new-e2e/system-probe/test-runner/main.go b/test/new-e2e/system-probe/test-runner/main.go
index a7b21754bd50e..9db45780970e6 100644
--- a/test/new-e2e/system-probe/test-runner/main.go
+++ b/test/new-e2e/system-probe/test-runner/main.go
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ func buildCommandArgs(pkg string, xmlpath string, jsonpath string, file string,
 		"--rerun-fails-max-failures=100",
 		"--raw-command", "--",
 		filepath.Join(testConfig.testingTools, "go/bin/test2json"), "-t", "-p", pkg, file, "-test.v", fmt.Sprintf("-test.count=%d", testConfig.runCount), "-test.timeout=" + getTimeout(pkg).String(),
+		"-loglevel", "debug",
 	}
 
 	if testConfig.extraParams != "" {