Uses Azure App Insights to track site collection creation in SharePoint Online.

COB_AppInsights_TrackSiteCreation.cs

ClientContext adminSiteContext = new ClientContext(TENANT_ADMIN_URL);
adminSiteContext.Credentials = new SharePointOnlineCredentials(TENANT_ADMIN_USER, securePwd);
Web templateWeb = adminSiteContext.Web;
adminSiteContext.Load(templateWeb, w => w.Title, w => w.Url);
adminSiteContext.ExecuteQueryRetry();

Console.WriteLine("Auth'd to site: " + templateWeb.Url);

// create new site collection..
Tenant tenant = new Tenant(adminSiteContext);
if (tenant.SiteExists(NEW_SITE_URL))
{
    Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Site already exists at URL - {0}", NEW_SITE_URL));
    Console.ReadLine();
}
else
{
    var stopwatch = System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.StartNew();

    // ... perform the timed action ...
    Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Creating site collection at - {0}", NEW_SITE_URL));
    tenant.CreateSiteCollection(NEW_SITE_URL, NEW_SITE_TITLE, ADMIN_EMAIL, "STS#0", 500, 400, 7, 7, 1, 1033);

    stopwatch.Stop();

    var siteCreationMetrics = new Dictionary<string, double> { { "processingTime", stopwatch.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds } };
    var siteCreationProperties = new Dictionary<string, string> { { "siteCollectionUrl", NEW_SITE_URL } };

    // Send the event:
    telemetry.TrackEvent("SiteCollectionCreated", siteCreationProperties, siteCreationMetrics);

    Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Site collection created...", NEW_SITE_URL));
 }