A property processed by a special vector field.

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Let $Y$ be a vector field on $\mathbb R^n$ (or any Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$). When will we know that

$$Y =\nabla_X X$$

for some other vector fields $X$? Or more precisely, if $Y$ does satisfy that equality for some $X$, will $Y$ satisfy some integral equality (Some consequence of divergence theorem)?