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 documentation on how to kill builds but came up blank. The closest thing I found was https://help.heroku.com/Z44Q4WW4/how-do-i-stop-a-release-phase and I tried killing as per those instructions but my build won't die :(
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If you have a build going into production right now and need to stop it quickly:
heroku plugins:install heroku-builds
heroku builds:cancel -a YOUR_HEROKU_APP_NAME
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1Perfect - I needed that quick cancel! – Freewalker Jul 10 '19 at 15:14
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This is so amazing! fast and clean. – Harshit Nov 25 '19 at 21:24
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Once you are logged in, just `heroku builds:cancel` should do it - for the most recent ♂️ `build` at least. – CodeFinity Dec 01 '20 at 12:38
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The heroku-builds CLI plugin (heroku plugins:install heroku-builds) has a command which will stop a running build:
$ heroku builds:cancel -a your-app-name
All builds will time out too after a time that can go between 15 minutes to 1 hour.
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2this workd but one needs to `heroku plugins:install heroku-builds` before, just like explained here https://stackoverflow.com/a/56892546/299774 – Greg Apr 28 '21 at 08:58
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Review apps are apps like any other, with their app name being the part of the hostname before `.herokuapp.com`. So you can kill them exactly the same way. – Damien MATHIEU Apr 13 '22 at 10:06
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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.
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