diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/ent-search/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/application/connector/syncjob/ConnectorSyncJobIndexService.java b/x-pack/plugin/ent-search/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/application/connector/syncjob/ConnectorSyncJobIndexService.java
index b1c08d8b7fbb1..910f0605ef7aa 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/ent-search/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/application/connector/syncjob/ConnectorSyncJobIndexService.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/ent-search/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/application/connector/syncjob/ConnectorSyncJobIndexService.java
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.action.update.UpdateRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.update.UpdateResponse;
 import org.elasticsearch.client.internal.Client;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.UUIDs;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.IndexNotFoundException;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.engine.DocumentMissingException;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.query.BoolQueryBuilder;
@@ -416,14 +415,6 @@ public void updateConnectorSyncJobIngestionStats(
 
     }
 
-    private String generateId() {
-        /* Workaround: only needed for generating an id upfront, autoGenerateId() has a side effect generating a timestamp,
-         * which would raise an error on the response layer later ("autoGeneratedTimestamp should not be set externally").
-         * TODO: do we even need to copy the "_id" and set it as "id"?
-         */
-        return UUIDs.base64UUID();
-    }
-
     private void getSyncJobConnectorInfo(String connectorId, ActionListener<Connector> listener) {
         try {