Soil Nailing is a technique where the slope stability is gotten through traction resistant elements (nails). This research shows the characterization,instrumentation and monitoring of a high wall soil nailed excavation in Niterói (RIO DE JANEIRO). The slope heights more than 30m and the soil was characterized as residual gneiss. The geotechnical caracterization was divided into field and laboratory phases. The field data used was SPT test, geotechnical mapping and pull-out tests. The laboratory tests were selected to inquiry parameters to evaluate the behavior of a soil nailed wall. The designed instrumentation was composed of tell tales, inclinometers and nails with strain gauges. The comparative analyses show that the results obtaneid through tell tales are similar to those obtanied by the inclinometers. The instrumented nails had allowed to monitoring the development of loads during the soil excavation. Additionally, numerical simulations had been carried out to evaluate the safety factor during the excavation, and to predict displacements and loads in the nails with an error around 25%. The knowledge of the behavior of soil nailed excavation is essential for the desing and improvement of this technique.