When BulkProcessor retries failed item requests then the same `IndexRequest` instance are used in a new `BulkRequest` for a retry. This is a problem when `BulkProcessor` is used from within Elasticsearch (this is the case for deprecation index logging, ilm/slm history and more), because the bulk request transport action may have set the `autoGeneratedTimestamp` field. 

If that is the case then error such a these may appear in the logs and the `BulkProcessor` retry fails:

```
Bulk write of 1 deprecation logs failed: autoGeneratedTimestamp should not be set externally
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: autoGeneratedTimestamp should not be set externally
	at org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.TransportBulkAction.doInternalExecute(TransportBulkAction.java:223) ~[elasticsearch-7.16.1.jar:7.16.1]
	at org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.TransportBulkAction$1.doRun(TransportBulkAction.java:192) ~[elasticsearch-7.16.1.jar:7.16.1]
	at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:26) [elasticsearch-7.16.1.jar:7.16.1]
	at org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.TransportBulkAction.doExecute(TransportBulkAction.java:200) [elasticsearch-7.16.1.jar:7.16.1]
	at org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.TransportBulkAction.doExecute(TransportBulkAction.java:91) [elasticsearch-7.16.1.jar:7.16.1]
```

In the bulk transport action, for each bulk item request of the `BulkRequest` its `process()` method is invoked. Incase of `IndexRequest` when no _id has been specified an id is generated and in that case the `IndexRequest#autoGeneratedTimestamp ` field is set. If the bulk request fails at a later stage, for example because there was no capacity on the node that hosts a primary shard to index documents then the bulk response will contain a `EsRejectedExecutionException` exception in the `BulkResponse` for the bulk items this failure occurred for. This is normal behaviour. However the `BulkProcessor` has retry logic and `EsRejectedExecutionException` is deemed retry-able. The `BulkProcessor` [reuses the same bulk request item instances ](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/bulk/Retry.java#L139)(`IndexRequest` in this case) upon retry. This causes the failure mentioned in the stack trace.
server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/index/IndexRequest.java
}
    /**
     * Sets a string representation of the {@link #opType(OpType)}. Can
     * be either "index" or "create".
     */
    public IndexRequest opType(String opType) {
        String op = opType.toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT);
        if (op.equals("create")) {
            opType(OpType.CREATE);
        } else if (op.equals("index")) {
            opType(OpType.INDEX);
        } else {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("opType must be 'create' or 'index', found: [" + opType + "]");
        }
        return this;
    }
    /**
     * Set to {@code true} to force this index to use {@link OpType#CREATE}.
     */
    public IndexRequest create(boolean create) {
        if (create) {
            return opType(OpType.CREATE);
        } else {
            return opType(OpType.INDEX);
        }
    }
    @Override
    public OpType opType() {
        return this.opType;
    }