I am attempting to use Conky as a dock in XMonad so that layouts will leave space for the Conky window and not overlap the Conky window. I have used the default .conkyrc that gets generated with conky -C and tried both own_window_type set as desktop and dock. In my xmonad.hs I have the following relevant parts

import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks
...
myManageHook = composeAll
    [
    className =? "Conky" --> doIgnore
    ]
...
myLayout = avoidStruts (...)
...
myConfig = def
...
, layoutHook = myLayout
, manageHook = myManageHook <+> manageDocks
...
main = xmonad . ... . docks $ myConfig

My desire is for XMonad to leave a column in all layouts such that the Conky window is present at all times and other windows will be behind Conky. However, new windows cover Conky completely.

I am planning to use Conky as a system monitor, utilizing cpugraph especially. I am not opposed to using dzen2, but I am not very familiar with it.

Is there any config I am missing to make this possible?