SuccessfulKoala55 I tried it as you asked, it just makes tasks to fail and apparently 'DEBUG' is just not a valid value for the 'CLEARML_API_VERBOSE' field, and only true/false are valid values.
I did find another option which is valid and might be what you meant though, which is:
"-e=CLEARML_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG"
I am providing you the logs for the new tests with this variable set, yet I am pretty sure it makes no difference in the logs, especially not with anything related to our issue with the task.connect() function (there is no any added prints/logs around the execution of the task.connect() function)
I'm providing logs of the autoscaler that took ~21.8 seconds for a simple small dict connect
VS
the manual spinned clearml-agent listener on a manual created vm that took ~1.4 second