That 'gray bar' in your screenshot is not what TheLittles suggests is filling with caches, that is your internal storage. In disk utility, you just selected the snapshot volume that macOS uses during system updates and is part of 'other volumes' when you select the Data volume. Here's mine, the Data volume that's selected is my user data.

If I select the snapshot, I get the picture you posted:

In Disk Utility if you select View Menu > Show All Devices and select the Container on the drive, you get the 'full picture' that shows the snapshot, the Recovery OS (preboot) and the VM swap file volume.

Note that the Free space is essentially constant, that's the real amount of free space on the drive. Yours is showing <10 GB and what that means is that you need to delete data from your internal storage (copy it to an external drive, for example).
Programs like OmniDiskSweeper and Disk Inventory X can show you what's taking up data on your drive.