How to kill an heroku build that is in progress?

Question

I accidentally pushed a build that does an npm install in the postinstall script. This has led to my heroku app being stuck in an infinite install loop. I searched the heroku do

Answer 1

To view all builds run the following in your terminal:

heroku builds -a YOUR_APP_NAME

To cancel a specific (pending) build:

heroku builds:cancel -a YOUR_APP_NAME HEROKU_BUILD_ID

Update (4th July 2020):

If you see the message Warning: builds is not a heroku command, run heroku plugins:install heroku-builds and try again.